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@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ high-level API as analogous to Qt/GTK+/HTML.
 Version numbers
 ===
 
-D-Bus uses the common "Linux kernel" versioning system, where
-even-numbered minor versions are stable and odd-numbered minor
-versions are development snapshots.
+D-Bus uses the same odd/even versioning system as GLib, SDL and older
+Linux kernels, where even-numbered minor versions are stable and
+odd-numbered minor versions are development snapshots.
 
 So for example, development snapshots: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.3.4
 Stable versions: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.3