diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index ad57bb33e..a74194d39 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@
 
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2008-12-19</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[robert] - Added -v to the install command for the convert-mans
+          script in the man-db page, for consistent use of verbose commands.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2008-12-18</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter06/man-db.xml b/chapter06/man-db.xml
index 542ff47f9..41fb6821a 100644
--- a/chapter06/man-db.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man-db.xml
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ do
         mv .tmp.iconv "$FILE"
 done</literal>
 EOF
-install -m755 convert-mans  /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
+install -v -m755 convert-mans  /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
 
 
     <para>If upstream distributes the manual pages in a legacy encoding, the
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 3d969bd78..2a3e05f4d 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20081218">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "December 18, 2008">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20081219">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "December 19, 2008">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2008"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone "7.0">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->