diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b1faab391..84781a403 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  - (dtucker) [configure.ac] For Cygwin, read files in textmode (which allows
    CRLF as well as LF lineendings) and write in binary mode.  Patch from
    vinschen at redhat.com.
+ - (dtucker) [INSTALL] Update to autoconf-2.61.
 
 20070301
  - (dtucker) OpenBSD CVS Sync
@@ -2789,4 +2790,4 @@
    OpenServer 6 and add osr5bigcrypt support so when someone migrates
    passwords between UnixWare and OpenServer they will still work. OK dtucker@
 
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.4627 2007/03/02 06:50:03 dtucker Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.4628 2007/03/02 06:53:41 dtucker Exp $
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1c784a527..af02c0b49 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -70,8 +70,9 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/
 Autoconf:
 
 If you modify configure.ac or configure doesn't exist (eg if you checked
-the code out of CVS yourself) then you will need autoconf-2.60 to rebuild
-the automatically generated files by running "autoreconf".
+the code out of CVS yourself) then you will need autoconf-2.61 to rebuild
+the automatically generated files by running "autoreconf".  Earlier
+version may also work but this is not guaranteed.
 
 http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
 
@@ -250,4 +251,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
 http://www.openssh.com/
 
 
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.76 2006/09/17 12:55:52 dtucker Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.77 2007/03/02 06:53:41 dtucker Exp $