raise the minimum supported BerkeleyDB version to 3.3 and add notes to
news about this and a couple other recent fixes.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 26e0ec0..ca694b5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -719,14 +719,13 @@
Beginning with Python version 2.3, the PyBsddb package
<http://pybsddb.sf.net/> was adopted into Python as the bsddb package,
exposing a set of package-level functions which provide
-backwards-compatible behavior. Only versions 3.1 through 4.1 of
+backwards-compatible behavior. Only versions 3.3 through 4.4 of
Sleepycat's libraries provide the necessary API, so older versions
aren't supported through this interface. The old bsddb module has
been retained as bsddb185, though it is not built by default. Users
wishing to use it will have to tweak Modules/Setup to build it. The
dbm module will still be built against the Sleepycat libraries if
-other preferred alternatives (ndbm, gdbm) are not found, though
-versions of the Sleepycat library prior to 3.1 are not considered.
+other preferred alternatives (ndbm, gdbm) are not found.
Building the sqlite3 module
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