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diff --git a/README b/README
index e25f2272..989984ea 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,12 +3,25 @@ README
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
-Free/Libre/Open-Source logic analyzer software that supports various
-logic analyzer hardware products.
+Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
+device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more).
 
 libsigrok is a shared library written in C which provides the basic API
-for talking to logic analyzer hardware and reading/writing the acquired data
-into various input/output file formats.
+for talking to hardware and reading/writing the acquired data into various
+input/output file formats.
+
+
+Status
+------
+
+libsigrok is in a usable state and has had official tarball releases.
+
+While the API can change from release to release, this will always be
+properly documented and reflected in the package version number and
+in the shared library / libtool / .so-file version numbers.
+
+However, there are _NO_ guarantees at all for stable APIs in git snapshots!
+Distro packagers should only use released tarballs (no git snapshots).
 
 
 Requirements
@@ -22,10 +35,10 @@ Requirements
  - libtool
  - pkg-config >= 0.22
  - libglib >= 2.28.0
- - libusb >= 1.0.5 (for most logic analyzer hardware)
+ - libusb >= 1.0.9 (for most hardware)
  - libzip >= 0.8
- - libftdi >= 0.16 (for some logic analyzer hardware)
- - libudev >= 151 (for some logic analyzer hardware)
+ - libftdi >= 0.16 (for some hardware)
+ - libudev >= 151 (for some hardware)
 
 
 Building and installing
@@ -33,8 +46,8 @@ Building and installing
 
 In order to get the libsigrok source code and build it, run:
 
- $ git clone git://sigrok.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/sigrok/sigrok
- $ cd sigrok/libsigrok
+ $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok
+ $ cd libsigrok
  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure
  $ make
@@ -86,5 +99,5 @@ You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.
 Website
 -------
 
-http://sigrok.org
+ http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libsigrok