2.34.0
diff --git a/INSTALL.in b/INSTALL.in
index d8134ff..27a7c1a 100644
--- a/INSTALL.in
+++ b/INSTALL.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Simple install procedure
 ========================
 
-  % gzip -cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@.tar.gz | tar xvf -  # unpack the sources
-  % cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@                           # change to the toplevel directory
+  % tar xf glib-@GLIB_VERSION@.tar.gz       # unpack the sources
+  % cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@                  # change to the toplevel directory
   % ./configure                             # run the `configure' script
   % make                                    # build GLIB
 
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
 
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
 
-
 Support for extended attributes and SELinux in GIO requires
 libattr and libselinux.
 
diff --git a/README.in b/README.in
index 07b3185..73f1eec 100644
--- a/README.in
+++ b/README.in
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@
 
 Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -up option to GNU diff.)
 
+Notes about GLib 2.34
+=====================
+
+* GIO now looks for thumbnails in XDG_CACHE_HOME, following a
+  recent alignment of the thumbnail spec with the basedir spec.
+
+* The default values for GThreadPools max_unused_threads and
+  max_idle_time settings have been changed to 2 and 15*1000,
+  respectively.
+
 Notes about GLib 2.32
 =====================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1ac41cc..054485f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
 # <mclasen> on the unstable (ie master), interface age = 0
 
 m4_define([glib_major_version], [2])
-m4_define([glib_minor_version], [33])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [15])
+m4_define([glib_minor_version], [34])
+m4_define([glib_micro_version], [0])
 m4_define([glib_interface_age], [0])
 m4_define([glib_binary_age],
           [m4_eval(100 * glib_minor_version + glib_micro_version)])