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-rw-r--r--README.win7
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4ebcd9f6..fa98354f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
dbus 1.15.0 (UNRELEASED)
========================
+Dependencies:
+
+• dbus now requires either a C99 compiler (such as gcc or clang),
+ or Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later. Some workarounds for
+ pre-C99 environments are currently still present, but we plan to
+ remove them during this development cycle.
+
Feature removal:
• Remove support for the obsolete pam_console and pam_foreground modules
diff --git a/README.win b/README.win
index 8a5b3c0a..0ed83e03 100644
--- a/README.win
+++ b/README.win
@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ test not running yet and there is help needed to get them running.
Supported compilers
-------------------
-On windows Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Express and professional variants)
-and mingw-w64|32 are known to work.
+Building dbus for Windows requires either Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
+or later, or a recent mingw-w64 compiler.
+
+Compilers older than the ones we test in continuous integration are
+not supported.
Building
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