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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ FUSE.
 
 Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
 programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby,
-Java, Haskell or C#).  You can also use it from shell scripts or the
+Java, PHP, Haskell or C#).  You can also use it from shell scripts or the
 command line.
 
 Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com) and
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Requirements
 
 - recent QEMU >= 0.12 with virtio-serial support
 
-- febootstrap >= 2.9
+- febootstrap >= 2.10
 
 - fakeroot
 
@@ -55,16 +55,16 @@ Requirements
 
 - libxml2
 
+- Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
+
 - squashfs-tools (mksquashfs only)
 
 - genisoimage / mkisofs
 
-- (Optional) hivex >= 1.2.1 to build Windows Registry support
+- hivex >= 1.2.1 (http://libguestfs.org/download)
 
 - (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module
 
-- (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
-
 - perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and
   other documentation.
 
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ in virt-inspector).
 
 - (Optional) po4a for translating manpages and POD files.
 
+- (Optional) PHP, phpize if you want to build the PHP bindings
+
 Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed
 on your machine.
 
@@ -211,10 +213,8 @@ In libguestfs >= 1.0.71 we don't require any vmchannel implementation,
 as long as qemu has been compiled with support for SLIRP (user mode
 networking, or "-net user"), which is almost always the case.
 
-However we still offer the ability to use vmchannel, and in future we
-may add support for other types of qemu, which is useful in a few
-cases, specifically where qemu packagers decide to compile out support
-for SLIRP (qemu packagers: please don't do this).
+In libguestfs >= 1.5.4 we switched again to using qemu's virtio-serial
+and removed all the other vmchannels and the SLIRP channel.
 
 
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