diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index b210a8f13..1e89a4e2b 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ Changes from current Ant 1.6.5 version to current SVN version
 Changes that could break older environments:
 -------------------------------------------
 
-* Removed support for xalan1 completely. Users of Xalan1 for ant builds will
+* Removed support for xalan1 completely. Users of Xalan1 for Ant builds will
   have to stay at ant 1.6.5 or upgrade to xalan2.
 
-* Improved recursion detection for lines with multiple matches of same token on one single line.
+* Improved recursion detection for lines with multiple matches of same token on a single line.
   Bugzilla report 38456.
 
 * Task will now log correctly even if no project is set. 
@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
   
 * The <java fork="false"> now as per default installs a security manager
   using the default permissions. This is now independent of the 
-  failonerror attribute.
-  Bugzilla report 33361.
+  failonerror attribute.  Bugzilla report 33361.
 
 * <signjar> now notices when the jar and signedjar are equal, and switches
   to the same dependency logic as when signedjar is omitted. This may break
@@ -52,9 +51,8 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
   actually crashes the JVM on our (Java1.5) systems, we don't think any
   build files which actually worked will be affected by the change.
 
-* <signjar> used to ignore a nested fileset when a jar was also provided
-  as an attribute, printing a warning message; now it signs files in the
-  fileset.
+* <signjar> used to ignore a nested fileset when a jar was also provided as an
+  attribute, printing a warning message; now it signs files in the fileset.
 
 * An improved method of handling timestamp granularity differences between 
   client and server was added to the <ftp> task.  FTP servers typically
@@ -98,11 +96,11 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
 Fixed bugs:
 -----------
 * Manifests have improved line length handling, taking care of encoding.
-  Bug reports 37548 / 34425
+  Bug reports 37548 / 34425.
 
-* <manifest> now closes the inputstream explicitly. Bug report 39628
+* <manifest> now closes the inputstream explicitly. Bug report 39628.
 
-* <rpm> now also correctly searches the first element of the path. Bug report 39345.
+* <rpm> now also correctly searches the first element of the path.  Bug report 39345.
 
 * ant.bat now handles classpath set to "". Bug report 38914. 
 
@@ -110,18 +108,18 @@ Fixed bugs:
 
 * <junit> can now work with junit.jar in its <classpath>. Bugzilla Report 38799.
 
-* Some potential NullPointerExceptions, Bugzilla Reports 37765 and 38056
+* Some potential NullPointerExceptions, Bugzilla Reports 37765 and 38056.
 
-* Problem when adding multiple filter files, Bugzilla Report 37341
+* Problem when adding multiple filter files, Bugzilla Report 37341.
 
 * problem referencing jars specified by Class-Path attribute in manifest
   of a ant task jar file, when this ant task jar file is located in
-  a directory with space, Bugzilla Report 37085 
+  a directory with space, Bugzilla Report 37085.
 
 * Backward incompatible change in ZipFileSet, Bugzilla Report 35824.
 
 * Wrong replacement of file separator chars prevens junitbatchtest
-  from running correctly on files from a zipfileset. Bugzilla Report 35499
+  from running correctly on files from a zipfileset. Bugzilla Report 35499.
 
 * Calling close twice on ReaderInputStream gave a nullpointer exception.
   Bugzilla Report 35544.
@@ -136,7 +134,7 @@ Fixed bugs:
   Bugzilla reports 31389 and 29499.
   
 * <manifest> was not printing warnings about invalid manifest elements.
-  Bugzilla report 32190
+  Bugzilla report 32190.
 
 * <replace> got out of memory on large files (part of report 32566). 
   <replace> can now handle files as long as there is enough disk space
@@ -152,7 +150,7 @@ Fixed bugs:
   did not always do so.
   
 * <ftp> failed to retrieve a file when the path towards the file contained
-  an element starting with . Bugzilla report 33770
+  an element starting with . Bugzilla report 33770.
   
 * "<rmic> always compiles on Java1.5" bugzilla report=33862. Fixed default
   stub version to always be "compat", even on Java1.5+. 
@@ -174,7 +172,7 @@ Fixed bugs:
   to avoid holding on to thread references after they terminate.
 
 * <xmlvalidate> and <schemavalidate> create a new parser for every file in a
-  fileset, and so validate multiple files properly. Bugzilla Report 32791
+  fileset, and so validate multiple files properly. Bugzilla Report 32791.
   
 * <tar> / <untar> now accepts files upto 8GB, <tar> gives an error if larger 
   files are to be included. This is the POSIX size limit.