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-wxWidgets 2.6.1
+wxWidgets 2.7.0
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 
 Welcome to wxWidgets, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
@@ -19,10 +19,25 @@ and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy.
 For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm
 for a list of important documents and samples.
 
+Releases in the 2.7 series are considered development releases,
+and as such, each new release may contain significant new
+features or code changes which have not yet received thorough
+testing and/or may break ABI or API compatibility with previous
+releases. Therefore, we recommend that you keep this in mind if
+you are to base your software on a 2.7 release, and thoroughly
+test the parts of the wx library your application uses.  Rest
+assured however that these potentially incompatible changes are
+made in order to evolve the toolkit to the next ABI stable
+release series (2.8.x) and that normally efforts are made to
+preserve compilation compatibility, so often moving to a new
+development release just requires a full recompile of the
+application using wxWidgets.
+
+
 Changes in this release
 -----------------------
 
-Please see changes.txt and "Changes since 2.4" in the manual
+Please see changes.txt and "Changes since 2.6" in the manual
 for details.
 
 Platforms supported
@@ -44,9 +59,10 @@ Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
 file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
 See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm.
 
-The 2.6 series is the last to fully support GTK+ 1.2, and Mac OS
-9/Mac OS 10.2 and below. wxWidgets 2.7 and above will focus on
-GTK+ 2, and Mac OS 10.3 and above.
+Note that 2.6 series were the last to fully support GTK+ 1.2, and Mac OS
+9/Mac OS 10.2 and below. wxWidgets 2.7 and above focuses on GTK+ 2 and Mac OS
+10.3 and above and compatibility with earlier systems is not guaranteed any
+more.
 
 Files
 -----
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 Have fun!
 
-The wxWidgets Team, June 2005
+The wxWidgets Team, September 2005