diff --git a/news/3905.bugfix b/news/3905.bugfix
index a719866fc..37fcaf273 100644
--- a/news/3905.bugfix
+++ b/news/3905.bugfix
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Adjust path to selfcheck.json - remove virtualenv specific path and honor cache-dir in pip.conf
+Update pip's self-check logic to not use a virtualenv specific file and honor cache-dir.
diff --git a/news/512.doc b/news/512.doc
index e0382fbe4..6c35db573 100644
--- a/news/512.doc
+++ b/news/512.doc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Adding documentation for making pip use a proxy server
+Document how to use pip with a proxy server.
diff --git a/news/5261.doc b/news/5261.doc
index 61b2918db..01f48a36a 100644
--- a/news/5261.doc
+++ b/news/5261.doc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Clarify that the output of pip show is in RFC-compliant mail header format for people who want to parse the ouput.
+Document that the output of pip show is in RFC-compliant mail header format.
diff --git a/news/5381.bugfix b/news/5381.bugfix
index 899fd4908..c50b2212a 100644
--- a/news/5381.bugfix
+++ b/news/5381.bugfix
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Improve error message to be  more specific when no files are found as listed in as listed in PKG-INFO.
+Improve error message to be more specific when no files are found as listed in as listed in PKG-INFO.
diff --git a/news/5416.bugfix b/news/5416.bugfix
index 2f7707e0c..f5aff2abe 100644
--- a/news/5416.bugfix
+++ b/news/5416.bugfix
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Start refusing to install packages with non PEP-518 compliant pyproject.toml
+Warn when a project's pyproject.toml file does not contain ``build-system.requires``.
diff --git a/news/5457.bugfix b/news/5457.bugfix
index 02c31e25f..405cc2a46 100644
--- a/news/5457.bugfix
+++ b/news/5457.bugfix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Restrict install time dependency warnings to directly-dependant packages
+Restrict install time dependency warnings to directly-dependant packages.
 
 Warning about the entire package set has resulted in users getting confused as
 to why pip is printing these warnings.
diff --git a/news/5512.bugfix b/news/5512.bugfix
index 2f7707e0c..f5aff2abe 100644
--- a/news/5512.bugfix
+++ b/news/5512.bugfix
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Start refusing to install packages with non PEP-518 compliant pyproject.toml
+Warn when a project's pyproject.toml file does not contain ``build-system.requires``.
diff --git a/news/5574.doc b/news/5574.doc
index e0382fbe4..6c35db573 100644
--- a/news/5574.doc
+++ b/news/5574.doc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Adding documentation for making pip use a proxy server
+Document how to use pip with a proxy server.