diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 86b49a8521600cc0a01c8c95c0104987eadba378..f87a2ac230d5bc21d2673651777bf05453038243 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ News for the 1.3.0 release:
 
 	Handle the TSTP signal. Backgrounding still doesn't work quite
 	right, though.
-	
+
+	Rewrote parts of the gaba.scm preprocessor.
+		
 News for the 1.2.0 release:
 
 	Added the lcp copying script to the distribution (although it
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3c5593d90e75030fd1b803bdd61f0ffb02ca368a..a8b9d521050683b980d507ce79c73b20fbfe9eb7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ running
 
   bash configure
 
-If you want to hack lsh, you need some more tools: autoconf, automake,
-bash, gcc, gperf (at least version 2.7) and a scheme implementeation.
-The currently supported schemes are guile and scsh (at least version
-0.5.2). All but scsh can be found at your local GNU mirror site. scsh,
-Olin Shiver's Scheme Shell, can be downloaded from <URL:
-ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/su/scsh/scsh.tar.gz>. If you use guile,
-you also need the slib library, which is usually distributed
-separately. It's also available at the GNU mirrors.
+If you want to hack lsh, you need some more tools: autoconf (at least
+version 2.50), automake, bash, gcc, gperf (at least version 2.7) and a
+scheme implementation. The currently supported schemes are guile and
+scsh (at least version 0.5.2). All but scsh can be found at your local
+GNU mirror site. scsh, Olin Shiver's Scheme Shell, can be downloaded
+from <URL: ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/su/scsh/scsh.tar.gz>. If you
+use guile, you also need the slib library, which is usually
+distributed separately. It's also available at the GNU mirrors.
 
 If you have checked out lsh from CVS, things are more complicated. You
 must first generate Makefile.am files from the corresponding