Minor tweaks

Author: garydgregory

RELEASE_NOTES.txt

@@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
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 This is the first BETA release in the 5.4 release series. It upgrades HttpCore to version
-5.3-beta1 and adds a number of minor improvements and fixes.
+5.3-beta1 and adds a few minor improvements and fixes.
 
 IMPORTANT! Please note the new cache entry serialization format is incompatible with earlier
 versions of HttpClient Cache. Persistent caches (file system based, Memcached, EhCAche
 with object serialization) created with any earlier version MUST be flushed and re-populated
-or the cache backend MUST be configured to use the old deprecated cache entry serializer.
+or the cache backend MUST be configured to use the old, deprecated cache entry serializer.
 
 
 Notable changes and features included in the 5.4 series:
 
 * Improved conformance to RFC 9110 (HTTP Semantics), RFC 7616 (HTTP Digest Access
   Authentication), RFC 2617 (’Basic’ HTTP Authentication Scheme).
 
-* UTF-8 encoding to be used by default for text where appropriate.
+* UTF-8 encoding is used by default for text where appropriate.
 
 * Compatibility with Java Virtual Threads and Java 21 Runtime.
 
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ Notable changes and features included in the 5.4 series:
 Change Log
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-* HTTPCLIENT-2328: Blocking i/o connections to check if the opposite TLS endpoint
+* HTTPCLIENT-2328: Blocking I/O connections to check if the opposite TLS endpoint
   has been closed by the opposite endpoint while writing out request body.
   Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
 
-* Redesign of test server APIs and integration test setup
+* Redesign of test server APIs and integration test setup.
   Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
 
 * HTTPCLIENT-2331: Skip cookie header generation if a Cookie header is already