doc: Polish changelog

changelog/unreleased/issue-1495

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Enhancement: Snapshots are sorted by timestamp in the output of `restic find`
+Enhancement: Sort snapshots by timestamp in `restic find`
 
-The `find` command printed snapshots in an arbitrary order. Now restic prints
+The `find` command used to print snapshots in an arbitrary order. Restic now
-the snapshots sorted by timestamp.
+prints snapshots sorted by timestamp.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1495
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4409

changelog/unreleased/issue-1759

@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ The `rebuild-index` command has been renamed to `repair index`. The old name
 will still work, but is deprecated.
 
 When a snapshot was damaged, the only option up to now was to completely forget
-the snapshot, even if only some unimportant file was damaged.
+the snapshot, even if only some unimportant files in it were damaged and other
+files were still fine.
 
-We've added a `repair snapshots` command, which can repair snapshots by removing
+Restic now has a `repair snapshots` command, which can salvage any non-damaged
-damaged directories and missing files contents. Note that using this command
+files and parts of files in the snapshots by removing damaged directories and
-can lead to (limited) data loss! Please see the "Troubleshooting" section in the
+missing file contents. Please note that the damaged data may still be lost
-documentation for more details.
+and see the "Troubleshooting" section in the documentation for more details.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1759
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1714

changelog/unreleased/issue-1926

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-Enhancement: Certificates can be passed through environment variables
+Enhancement: Allow certificate paths to be passed through environment variables
 
-Restic will now read the paths to the certificates from the environment
+Restic will now read paths to certificates from the environment variables
-variables `RESTIC_CACERT` or `RESTIC_TLS_CLIENT_CERT` if `--cacert` or
+`RESTIC_CACERT` or `RESTIC_TLS_CLIENT_CERT` if `--cacert` or `--tls-client-cert`
-`--tls-client-cert` are not specified. 
+are not specified. 
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1926  
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4384

changelog/unreleased/issue-2359

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-Enhancement: Provide multi-platform Docker containers
+Enhancement: Provide multi-platform Docker images
 
-The official Docker containers are now built for the architectures linux/386,
+The official Docker images are now built for the architectures linux/386,
 linux/amd64, linux/arm and linux/arm64.
 
-As an alternative to the Docker Hub, the Docker containers are also
+As an alternative to the Docker Hub, the Docker images are also
 available on ghcr.io, the GitHub Container Registry.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2359

changelog/unreleased/issue-2468

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Enhancement: Add support for non-global Azure clouds
 
-Restic backups on Azure only supported storages using the global domain
+The `azure` backend previously only supported storages using the global domain
 `core.windows.net`. This meant that backups to other domains such as Azure
 China (`core.chinacloudapi.cn`) or Azure Germany (`core.cloudapi.de`) were
 not supported. Restic now allows overriding the global domain using the 

changelog/unreleased/issue-3311

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Bugfix: Support non-UTF8 paths as symlink target
 
-Restic versions before 0.16.0 did not correctly `backup` and `restore` symlinks
+Earlier restic versions did not correctly `backup` and `restore` symlinks that
-that contain a non-UTF8 target. Note that this only affects system that still
+contain a non-UTF8 target. Note that this only affected systems that still use
-use a non-Unicode encoding for filesystem paths.
+a non-Unicode encoding for filesystem paths.
 
-We have extended the repository format to add support for such symlinks. Please
+The repository format is now extended to add support for such symlinks. Please
-note that at least restic version 0.16.0 must be used for both `backup` and
+note that snapshots must have been created with at least restic version 0.16.0
-`restore` to correctly handle non-UTF8 symlink targets.
+for `restore` to correctly handle non-UTF8 symlink targets when restoring them.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3311
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3802

changelog/unreleased/issue-3328

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Enhancement: Reduce memory usage by up to 25%
 
+The in-memory index has been optimized to be more GC friendly.
+
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3328
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4352
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4353

changelog/unreleased/issue-3397

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-Enhancement: Improve the ETA displayed during backup
+Enhancement: Improve accuracy of ETA displayed during backup
 
-Restic's `backup` command displayed an ETA that did not adapt when the rate
+Restic's `backup` command displayed an ETA that did not adapt when the rate of
-of progress made during the backup changed during the course of the
+progress made during the backup changed during the course of the backup.
-backup. Restic now uses recent progress when computing the ETA. It is
+
-important to realize that the estimate may still be wrong, because restic
+Restic now uses recent progress when computing the ETA. It is important to
-cannot predict the future, but the hope is that the ETA will be more
+realize that the estimate may still be wrong, because restic cannot predict
-accurate in most cases.
+the future, but the hope is that the ETA will be more accurate in most cases.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3397
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3563

changelog/unreleased/issue-3624

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Enhancement: Keep oldest snapshot when there are not enough snapshots
 
 The `forget` command now additionally preserves the oldest snapshot if fewer
-snapshots are kept than allowed by the `--keep-*` parameters. This maximizes
+snapshots than allowed by the `--keep-*` parameters would otherwise be kept.
-amount of history kept while the specified limits are not yet reached.
+This maximizes the amount of history kept within the specified limits.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3624
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4366

changelog/unreleased/issue-3698

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Enhancement: Add support for Managed / Workload Identity to azure backend
+Enhancement: Add support for Managed / Workload Identity to `azure` backend
 
 Restic now additionally supports authenticating to Azure using Workload
 Identity or Managed Identity credentials, which are automatically injected in

changelog/unreleased/issue-3871

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The commands `diff`, `dump`, `ls` and `restore` now support the
 `<snapshot>:<subfolder>` syntax, where `snapshot` is the ID of a snapshot (or
 the string `latest`) and `subfolder` is a path within the snapshot. The
 commands will then only work with the specified path of the snapshot. The
-`subfolder` must be a path to a folder as returned by `ls`. 
+`subfolder` must be a path to a folder as returned by `ls`. Two examples:
 
 `restic restore -t target latest:/some/path`
 `restic diff 12345678:/some/path 90abcef:/some/path`

changelog/unreleased/issue-3941

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 Enhancement: Support `--group-by` for backup parent selection
 
-The `backup` command by default selected the parent snapshot based on the hostname
+Previously, the `backup` command by default selected the parent snapshot based
-and the backup targets. When the backup path list changed, the `backup` command
+on the hostname and the backup targets. When the backup path list changed, the
-was unable to determine a suitable parent snapshot and had to read all
+`backup` command was unable to determine a suitable parent snapshot and had to
-files again.
+read all files again.
 
 The new `--group-by` option for the `backup` command allows filtering snapshots
 for the parent selection by `host`, `paths` and `tags`. It defaults to
 `host,paths` which selects the latest snapshot with hostname and paths matching
 those of the backup run. This matches the behavior of prior restic versions.
-The `--group-by` option should be set to the same value as passed to
+
+The new `--group-by` option should be set to the same value as passed to
 `forget --group-by`.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3941

changelog/unreleased/issue-4130

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 Enhancement: Cancel current command if cache becomes unusable
 
 If the cache directory was removed or ran out of space while restic was
-running, this caused further caching attempts to fail and drastically slow down
+running, this would previously cause further caching attempts to fail and
-the command execution. Now, the currently running command is canceled instead.
+thereby drastically slow down the command execution. Now, the currently running
+command is instead canceled.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4130
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4166

changelog/unreleased/issue-4159

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 Enhancement: Add `--human-readable` option to `ls` and `find` commands
 
-Previously, when using the `-l` option with the `ls` and `find` commands,
+Previously, when using the `-l` option with the `ls` and `find` commands, the
-the displayed size was always in bytes, without an option for a more
+displayed size was always in bytes, without an option for a more human readable
-human readable format such as MiB or GiB.
+format such as MiB or GiB.
 
-The new `--human-readable` option will convert longer size values into
+The new `--human-readable` option will convert longer size values into more 
-more human friendly values with an appropriate suffix depending on the
+human friendly values with an appropriate suffix depending on the output size.
-output size. For example, a size of `14680064` will be shown as
+For example, a size of `14680064` will be shown as `14.000 MiB`.
-`14.000 MiB`.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4159
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4351

changelog/unreleased/issue-4188

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-Enhancement: `backup` includes restic version in snapshot metadata
+Enhancement: Include restic version in snapshot metadata
 
-The restic version used to backup a snapshot is now included in its metadata.
+The restic version used to backup a snapshot is now included in its metadata
-The program version is shown when inspecting a snapshot using `restic cat
+and shown when inspecting a snapshot using `restic cat snapshot <snapshotID>`
-snapshot <snapshotID>`  or `restic snapshots --json`.
+or `restic snapshots --json`.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4188
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4378

changelog/unreleased/issue-4199

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-Bugfix: Avoid lock refresh issues with slow network connections
+Bugfix: Avoid lock refresh issues on slow network connections
 
-On network connections with a low upload speed, restic could often fail
+On network connections with a low upload speed, backups and other operations
-backups and other operations with `Fatal: failed to refresh lock in time`.
+could fail with the error message `Fatal: failed to refresh lock in time`.
-We've reworked the lock refresh to avoid this error.
+
+This has now been fixed by reworking the lock refresh handling.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4199
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4304

changelog/unreleased/issue-4274

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-Bugfix: Improve lock refresh handling when using standby
+Bugfix: Improve lock refresh handling after standby
 
 If the restic process was stopped or the host running restic entered standby
-during a long running operation such as a backup, this resulted in the
+during a long running operation such as a backup, this previously resulted in
-operation failing with `Fatal: failed to refresh lock in time`. We've reworked
+the operation failing with `Fatal: failed to refresh lock in time`.
-the lock refresh such that restic first checks whether it is safe to continue
+
-the current operation and only throws an error if not.
+This has now been fixed such that restic first checks whether it is safe to
+continue the current operation and only throws an error if not.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4274
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4374

changelog/unreleased/pull-4201

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ Change: Require Go 1.20 for Solaris builds
 
 Building restic on Solaris now requires Go 1.20, as the library used to access
 Azure uses the mmap syscall, which is only available on Solaris starting from
-Go 1.20.
+Go 1.20. All other platforms however continue to build with Go 1.18.
-
-All other platforms continue to build with Go 1.18.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4201

changelog/unreleased/pull-4220

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Enhancement: Add `jq` binary to container image
+Enhancement: Add `jq` binary to Docker image
 
-The Docker container image now contains `jq`, which can be useful to process
+The Docker image now contains `jq`, which can be useful to process JSON data
-JSON data output by restic.
+output by restic.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4220

changelog/unreleased/pull-4226

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Enhancement: Allow specifying the region of new buckets in the gs backend
+Enhancement: Allow specifying region of new buckets in the `gs` backend
 
-Buckets used by the Google Cloud Storage backend would always get created in
+Previously, buckets used by the Google Cloud Storage backend would always get
-the "us" region. It is now possible to specify the region where a bucket
+created in the "us" region. It is now possible to specify the region where a
-should be created by using the `-o gs.region=us` option.
+bucket should be created by using the `-o gs.region=us` option.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4226

changelog/unreleased/pull-4318

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Bugfix: Correctly clean up status bar output of the `backup` command
 
 Due to a regression in restic 0.15.2, the status bar of the `backup` command
 could leave some output behind. This happened if filenames were printed that
-are wider than the current terminal width. This has been fixed.
+are wider than the current terminal width. This has now been fixed.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4319
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4318

changelog/unreleased/pull-4400

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-Bugfix: Ignore missing folders in REST backend
+Bugfix: Ignore missing folders in `rest` backend
 
 If a repository accessed via the REST backend was missing folders, then restic
 would fail with an error while trying to list the data in the repository. This
-has been fixed.
+has been now fixed.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4400
 https://github.com/restic/rest-server/issues/235