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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8c8160ce..b6417411 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ Features
       Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop
       batteries.
 
+    - curl
+      Parse statistics from websites using regular expressions.
+
+    - bind
+      Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
+      interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
+
     - cpu
       CPU utilization: Time spent in the system, user, nice, idle, and related
       states.
@@ -146,6 +153,13 @@ Features
       Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project.
       Please read in collectd.conf(5) why this plugin is experimental.
 
+    - openvpn
+      RX and TX of each client in openvpn-status.log (status-version 2).
+      <http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html>
+
+    - oracle
+      Query data from an Oracle database.
+
     - perl
       The perl plugin implements a Perl-interpreter into collectd. You can
       write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this
@@ -289,6 +303,27 @@ Features
       Notifications are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well.
       See collectd-perl(5).
 
+  * Value processing can be controlled using the "filter chain" infrastructure
+    and "matches" and "targets". The following plugins are available:
+
+    - match_regex
+      Match values by their identifier based on regular expressions.
+
+    - match_timediff
+      Match values with an invalid timestamp.
+
+    - match_value
+      Select values by their data sources' values.
+
+    - target_notification
+      Create and dispatch a notification.
+
+    - target_replace
+      Replace parts of an identifier using regular expressions.
+
+    - target_set
+      Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
+
   * Miscellaneous plugins:
 
     - uuid
@@ -365,8 +400,11 @@ Prerequisites
     particular.
     <http://developer.apple.com/corefoundation/>
 
+  * libclntsh (optional)
+    Used by the `oracle' plugin.
+
   * libcurl (optional)
-    If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', or `nginx' plugin.
+    If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl' or `nginx' plugin.
     <http://curl.haxx.se/>
 
   * libdbi (optional)
@@ -472,9 +510,11 @@ Configuring / Compiling / Installing
   disable all plugins whose requirements cannot be fulfilled (any other plugin
   will be enabled). To enable a plugin, install missing dependencies (see
   section `Prerequisites' above) and rerun `configure'. If you specify the
-  `--enable-<plugin>' configure option, you can force the plugin to be built.
-  This will most likely fail though unless you're working in a very unusual
-  setup and you really know what you're doing.
+  `--enable-<plugin>' configure option, the script will fail if the depen-
+  dencies for the specified plugin are not met. If you specify the
+  `--disable-<plugin>' configure option, the plugin will not be built. Both
+  options are meant for package maintainers and should not be used in everyday
+  situations.
 
   By default, collectd will be installed into `/opt/collectd'. You can adjust
   this setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see INSTALL for
@@ -501,12 +541,24 @@ Crosscompiling
   that the compiled binary actually behaves as it should, but since NANs
   are likely never passed to the libm you have a good chance to be lucky.
 
+  Likewise, collectd needs to know the layout of doubles in memory, in order
+  to craft uniform network packets over different architectures. For this, it
+  needs to know how to convert doubles into the memory layout used by x86. The
+  configure script tries to figure this out by compiling and running a few
+  small test programs. This is of course not possible when cross-compiling.
+  You can use the `--with-fp-layout' option to tell the configure script which
+  conversion method to assume. Valid arguments are:
+
+    * `nothing'    (12345678 -> 12345678)
+    * `endianflip' (12345678 -> 87654321)
+    * `intswap'    (12345678 -> 56781234)
+
 
 Contact
 -------
 
-  For questions, bugreports, development information and basically all other
-  concerns please send an email to collectd's mailinglist at
+  For questions, bug reports, development information and basically all other
+  concerns please send an email to collectd's mailing list at
   <collectd at verplant.org>.
 
   For live discussion and more personal contact visit us in IRC, we're in
@@ -520,5 +572,6 @@ Author
   Sebastian tokkee Harl <sh at tokkee.org>,
   and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').
 
-  Please send bugreports and patches to the mailinglist, see `Contact' above.
+  Please send bug reports and patches to the mailing list, see `Contact'
+  above.