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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/NEWS b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/NEWS
index 79000749219..bcf764ae183 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/NEWS
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/NEWS
@@ -2,19 +2,41 @@
Karl Berry, 2010.)
<p><b>tlmgr XXXXX (released DDmmm18):</b>
-<li>alternative fallback downloader support: if persistent connections
- cannot be used (LWP not available), the fallback download program
- can now be set to either wget or curl using the environment variable
- TEXLIVE_DOWNLOADER. Esp. for MacOS and https curl is recommended.</li>
-<li>alternative compressor format support: backups and intermediate
- rollback containers were always created with xz. By setting
- TEXLIVE_COMPRESSOR to one of xz, lz4, gzip one can select a different
- format. In particular lz4 and gzip are much faster in producing
- the backup containers.</li>
-<li>ssh support: installing from a repository of the form<br>
- user@machine:/path/to/tlnet
- should now work. ssh-agent is strongly recommended!</li>
-
+<li>support for curl as a download program, and new default behavior for
+choosing. In this order:
+ <ol>
+ <li>If the environment variable <tt>TEXLIVE_DOWNLOADER</tt> is
+ defined, use it; abort on failure if it doesn't work.
+ <li>If the environment variable <tt>TL_DOWNLOAD_PROGRAM</tt> is
+ defined, use it; abort on failure if it doesn't work.
+ <li>If LWP is available and working, use that (by far the most
+ efficient method, as it supports persistent downloads).
+ <li>If curl is available (from the system) and working, use that.
+ <li>If wget is available (either from the system or TL) and
+ working, use that.
+ </ol>
+ <p>TL still provides <tt>wget</tt> binaries for some platforms, so
+ some download method should always be available.
+
+<li>support for alternative compressor programs; until now, backups and
+ intermediate rollback containers were always created with xz. Now:
+ <ol>
+ <li>If the environment variable <tt>TEXLIVE_COMPRESSOR</tt> is
+ defined, use it; abort on failure if it doesn't work.
+ <li>If lz4 is available (either from the system or TL) and working, use that.
+ <li>If gzip is available (from the system) and working, use that.
+ <li>If xz is available (either from the system or TL) and working, use that.
+ </ol>
+ <p>lz4 and gzip are much faster in creating tlmgr's local backups.
+ The unconditional use of xz for the tlnet containers is unaffected,
+ to minimize download sizes.
+
+<li><a href="https://openssh.com/">ssh</a> support: installing from a
+ repository of the form <tt>user@machine:/path/to/tlnet</tt> is now
+ supported; the url-like forms
+ <tt>scp://user@machine/path/to/tlnet</tt> and
+ <tt>scp://user@machine/path/to/tlnet</tt> are equivalent. ssh-agent
+ is strongly recommended!
<p><b>tlmgr 47303 (released 14apr18):</b>
<li>uninstall now a synonym for remove, so requiring --all to remove the
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
index 7e305a5e0fa..37b73a51871 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ Dick @ updating MacTeX.
Martin @ torrents (done earlier).
Siep @ w32client.html, Norbert @ debian,updmap-kanji.html.
Nikola @ FreeBSD notes linked on bugs.html.
-pdftex maintainers @ updating pdftex sources with sync-pdftex.sh.
+pdftex maintainers @ updating pdftex sources with sync-pdftex.sh + tag.
- make tag + branch:
(determine revision number from svn log, in case commits were mistakenly made)