I've released man-pages-5.06. The release tarball is available on kernel.org. The browsable online pages can be found on man7.org. The Git repository for man-pages is available on kernel.org.
This release resulted from patches, bug reports, reviews, and comments from 39 contributors. The release includes more than 250 commits that change more than 120 pages. Three new pages were added in this release.
The most notable of the changes in man-pages-5.06 are the following:
- A new openat2(2) manual page, written by Aleksa Sarai, documents the system call of the same name that was added in Linux 5.6.
- A new pidfd_getfd(2) page, written by me, documents the system call of the same name that was added in Linux 5.6.
- A new time_namespaces(7) page, written by me, documents time namespaces, which were added in Linux 5.6.
- Many details were added and improved in the clock_getres(2) page.
- I have substantially revised the select(2) and select_tut(2). In the process, much information that was duplicated across both pages has been consolidated into the select(2) page. Existing text in select(2) was also substantially rewritten and restructured.
- I have revised and trimmed the sysvipc(7) to be just a summary of the System V IPC APIs. Various details that formerly were in this page have been moved to relevant pages in section 2.
- I've added example programs to several pages: clock_getres(2), poll(2), semget(2), shmop(2), shm_open(3), and strcmp(3).
