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@@ -27,7 +27,14 @@ Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
 </p>
 <p>
 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
-for DRI ardware acceleration.
+for DRI hardware acceleration.
+</p>
+<p>
+Note that the Mesa project is no longer using odd/even version numbers
+to indicate development/stable releases.
+The so-called development releases have been fairly stable.
+If you're especially concerned with stability you should probably look for
+"point" releases such as 7.5.1 which will be a bug-fix release.
 </p>