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                                   INTRODUCTION
 
-This is wimlib version 1.9.1-BETA (February 2016).  wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.10.0-BETA (July 2016).  wimlib is a C library for
 creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging
 Format (WIM files).  wimlib and its command-line frontend 'wimlib-imagex'
 provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX,
@@ -146,15 +146,10 @@ dependencies were already included and this section is irrelevant.
        automatically be loaded if you try to mount a WIM image.  For more
        information see http://fuse.sourceforge.net/.
 
-* libattr (optional but recommended)
-       Unless configured --without-fuse, wimlib also requires libattr.  Almost
-       all Linux distributions should include this; however, you may need to
-       install the header files, which might be in a package named "attr-dev",
-       "libattr1-dev", or similar.
-
 * libntfs-3g (optional but recommended)
        Unless configured --without-ntfs-3g, wimlib requires the library and
-       headers for libntfs-3g version 2011-4-12 or later to be installed.
+       headers for libntfs-3g to be installed.  The minimum required version is
+       2011-4-12, but newer versions contain important bug fixes.
 
 * OpenSSL / libcrypto (optional)
        wimlib can use the SHA-1 message digest implementation from libcrypto
@@ -189,7 +184,7 @@ This section documents the most important options that may be passed to the
 
 --without-fuse
        The --without-fuse option disables support for mounting WIM images.
-       This removes dependencies on libfuse, librt, and libattr.  The wimmount,
+       This removes dependencies on libfuse and librt.  The wimmount,
        wimmountrw, and wimunmount commands will not work.
 
        The default is --with-fuse when building for Linux, and --without-fuse
@@ -275,9 +270,13 @@ the code has been entirely rewritten and improved (main author: Eric Biggers).
 Windows support has been available since version 1.3.0 (March 2013).  A list of
 version-to-version changes can be found in the NEWS file.
 
-                             LICENSE AND DISCLAIMER
+                                    NOTICES
+
+wimlib is free software that comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
+law.  See the COPYING file for more details.
 
-See COPYING for information about the license.
+Bug reports, suggestions, and other contributions are appreciated and may be
+sent via email to ebiggers3@gmail.com or posted to https://wimlib.net/forums.
 
 wimlib is independently developed and does not contain any code, data, or files
 copyrighted by Microsoft.  It is not known to be affected by any patents.
@@ -287,5 +286,6 @@ libcrypto (OpenSSL), configure with --without-libcrypto.  This replaces the SHA1
 implementation with built-in code and there will be no difference in
 functionality.
 
-wimlib comes with no warranty whatsoever.  Please submit a bug report (to
-ebiggers3@gmail.com) if you find a bug in wimlib and/or wimlib-imagex.
+Note: copyright years may be listed using range notation, e.g., 2012-2016,
+indicating that every year in the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that
+would otherwise be listed individually.