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man-pages-6.00 - manual pages for GNU/Linux

I've released man-pages-6.00.  The release tarball will soon be
available on <kernel.org>.

This release resulted from patches, bug reports, reviews, and comments
from around 145 contributors.  The release includes around 1245
commits, and changed all of the pages.

The most notable of the changes in man-pages-6.00 are the following:

- A new set of man dirs: man2type/, man3const/, man3head/, and man3type.
  These hold new pages and pages splitted from system_data_types(7),
  which had become too big in the recent releases.

- An improved build system, which allows running linter programs that
  check the correctness of both the man(7) source and the C programs in
  EXAMPLES.

- A new LIBRARY section (mostly in sections 2 and 3).  There have also
  been other important changes to the title and other sections, such as
  the removal of the COLOPHON.

- We have added several new pages documenting new kernel features, such
  as landlock(7) and memfd_secret(2).

Especial mention to наб, with 58 commits to this release.

Thank you all for contributing.  Especially to those in the groff@
mailing list who helped me a lot in this release, and to Michael (mtk).