diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index df25e43e3..e41495b4a 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2010-03-01</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.7. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2583">#2583</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.17.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2581">#2581</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index fada5db61..b142f0ea9 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -127,9 +127,9 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Make &make-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Man-DB &man-db-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Man-pages &man-pages-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
diff --git a/chapter06/man-db.xml b/chapter06/man-db.xml
index 4aea8c5e4..14a2645c6 100644
--- a/chapter06/man-db.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man-db.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     encoded with.  In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual
     pages installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded.</para>
 
-    <!-- Origin: man-db-2.5.5/src/encodings.c -->
+    <!-- Origin: man-db-2.5.7/src/encodings.c -->
     <table>
 <title>Expected character encoding of legacy 8-bit manual pages</title>
       <?dbfo table-width="6in" ?>
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
             <entry>Danish (da)</entry>
             <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
             <entry>Croatian (hr)</entry>
-            <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
+            <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
           </row>
           <row>
             <entry>German (de)</entry>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 662e14919..883f88c97 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -339,10 +339,10 @@
 <!ENTITY make-ch6-du "9.7 MB">
 <!ENTITY make-ch6-sbu "0.3 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY man-db-version "2.5.6">
-<!ENTITY man-db-size "2,045 KB">
+<!ENTITY man-db-version "2.5.7">
+<!ENTITY man-db-size "2,123 KB">
 <!ENTITY man-db-url "http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/man-db/man-db-&man-db-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY man-db-md5 "69585b19c5600a863f1a0d7b7f283975">
+<!ENTITY man-db-md5 "eef0d8c8e54894e4e050e2176bb1d88d">
 <!ENTITY man-db-home "http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/">
 <!ENTITY man-db-ch6-du "22 MB">
 <!ENTITY man-db-ch6-sbu "0.4 SBU">