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diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
index 7331053..5aac2e9 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
@@ -484,6 +484,14 @@ Setting C<whattodrop> to 3 should drop everything.
 This automatically calls L<sync(2)> before the operation,
 so that the maximum guest memory is freed.
 
+=item $h->end_busy ();
+
+This sets the state to C<READY>, or if in C<CONFIG> then it leaves the
+state as is.  This is only used when implementing
+actions using the low-level API.
+
+For more information on states, see L<guestfs(3)>.
+
 =item $equality = $h->equal ($file1, $file2);
 
 This compares the two files C<file1> and C<file2> and returns
@@ -582,6 +590,15 @@ This returns the verbose messages flag.
 This command installs GRUB (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
 C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>.
 
+=item $dump = $h->hexdump ($path);
+
+This runs C<hexdump -C> on the given C<path>.  The result is
+the human-readable, canonical hex dump of the file.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
 =item $busy = $h->is_busy ();
 
 This returns true iff this handle is busy processing a command
@@ -728,7 +745,7 @@ as necessary.  This is like the C<mkdir -p> shell command.
 =item $h->mkfs ($fstype, $device);
 
 This creates a filesystem on C<device> (usually a partition
-of LVM logical volume).  The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
+or LVM logical volume).  The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
 example C<ext3>.
 
 =item $h->mount ($device, $mountpoint);
@@ -958,6 +975,31 @@ C<path> should be a file or directory in the mounted file system
 
 This is the same as the C<statvfs(2)> system call.
 
+=item @stringsout = $h->strings ($path);
+
+This runs the L<strings(1)> command on a file and returns
+the list of printable strings found.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
+=item @stringsout = $h->strings_e ($encoding, $path);
+
+This is like the C<$h-E<gt>strings> command, but allows you to
+specify the encoding.
+
+See the L<strings(1)> manpage for the full list of encodings.
+
+Commonly useful encodings are C<l> (lower case L) which will
+show strings inside Windows/x86 files.
+
+The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
 =item $h->sync ();
 
 This syncs the disk, so that any writes are flushed through to the
@@ -1076,6 +1118,11 @@ As a special case, if C<size> is C<0>
 then the length is calculated using C<strlen> (so in this case
 the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).
 
+I<NB.> Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII NUL
+characters does I<not> work, even if the length is specified.
+We hope to resolve this bug in a future version.  In the meantime
+use C<$h-E<gt>upload>.
+
 Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
 of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
 FTP.