2.17.0GLIB_2_17_0

svn path=/trunk/; revision=6948

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diff --git a/README b/README
index cd3d40da6..b88ef5b28 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 General Information
 ===================
 
-This is GLib version 2.16.1. GLib is the low-level core
+This is GLib version 2.17.0. GLib is the low-level core
 library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It
 provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and
 interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads,
@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ Installation
 
 See the file 'INSTALL'
 
+Notes about GLib 2.18
+=====================
+
+* The recommended way of using GLib has always been to only include the
+  toplevel headers glib.h, glib-object.h and gio.h. GLib enforces this by 
+  generating an error when individual headers are directly included. 
+  To help with the transition, the enforcement is not turned on by 
+  default for GLib headers (it is turned on for GObject and GIO).
+  To turn it on, define the preprocessor symbol G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
+  
 Notes about GLib 2.16
 =====================
 
@@ -31,7 +41,6 @@ Notes about GLib 2.16
   and libselinux for extended attribute and SELinux support. Use 
   --disable-xattr and --disable-selinux to build without these.
 
-
 Notes about GLib 2.10
 =====================