man-1.6c
- Corrected missing format string, but no privilege escalation was involved (flc, Ville-Skyttä).
- pscan format string audit run - nothing further found (flc).
- Updated Bulgarian locale man pages translation (Alexander Shopov). 
- makewhatis and other minor changes to support BG locale (Alexander Shopov, flc).
- Updated Italian locale message catalog translation (flc).
- Updated French man pages, with new man2html page (Alain Portal).

man-1.6b
- Additional changes for parallel Make (Octavio Ruiz).
- New French locale man pages translation (Alain Portal).
- New French locale message catalog translation (Alain Portal).
- Minor changes in manual pages (Giorgos Keramidas, flc).
- Minor corrections in the docs (flc).

man-1.6a

- Fixes to support parallel Make (Mike Frysinger).
- Fixes in mess.en message catalog (Martin von Gagern).
- Corrections and updates to the manual (flc).

man-1.6

- New Maintainer Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi@acm.org).
- Ability to hand HTML man pages off to a browser added (Eric S. Raymond).

man-1.5p

- Chinese messages (CHAO, Wei-Lun) - unused
- Russian messages
- Set DEFAULT_NLSPATH to "/usr/share/locale/%L/%N"
- Prefer LC_MESSAGES over LANG
- Don't (potentially) use a pager with apropos and whatis
- Superfluous security fix
- Filter .iX macros out when constructing whatis database
- Allow globbed MANPATH items like /opt/*/man
- Return a correct status
- Continue search when an appropriate page was found to be inaccessible

man-1.5o2:

- Fixed man -k segfault
- Allow man -k "text with spaces"

man-1.5o1:

- Fixed man2html array overflow

man-1.5o:

- Polish messages, non-dummy codesets (Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org>)
- CYGWIN fix for perl manpages (with :: in filename)
- Fix for certain awk versions in mansec (NISHIMURA Daisuke)
- When asked for a nonexisting page in section 1p, do not also try section 1

man-1.5n:

- Added "0p 1p 3p" in sections string
- Added mess.??.codeset (with dummy content)
- No funny Russian messages
- man2html: handle .so with trailing whitespace
- replace -grepsilent by >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

man-1.5m:

- Greek man pages and messages
- makewhatis fix

man-1.5k:

- Korean and Romanian man pages and messages
- makewhatis fixes
- apropos fix
- security fix

man-1.5j:

- a few security fixes
- adapted configure to try awk/gawk/mawk
- Japanese support, man pages and messages, Russian messages
- polished makewhatis so that it handles more strange man pages
- implemented MANDEFOPTIONS for people who always want -a

man-1.5i:

- added man2dvi (Tobias Begalke <tb@lst.de>)
- polished makewhatis so that it handles more strange man pages
- improve handling of filenames with embedded spaces
- man -W gives same output to tty and pipe
- man2html/scripts/cgi-bin/man/mansearch: change separator so that
  perl function names like ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3) are handled correctly
  (Carlos A M dos Santos <casantos@inf.ufrgs.br>)
- make "man ./foo.3" work, when foo.3 contains ".so man2/bar.2"
- gencat fix for Unix98 conformance (Stanislav Brabec <utx@k332.feld.cvut.cz>)