diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7aab1a2605..6fd1ed506e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-02-04  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Revert gtk_binary_version to 2.4.0. Fix
+	up comment to talk only about backwards compat, not
+	forward/backwards compat. (#166293, reported by Vincent Noel)
+
 2005-02-04  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkentry.c (gtk_entry_create_layout): Avoid spurious
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index 7aab1a2605..6fd1ed506e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-02-04  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Revert gtk_binary_version to 2.4.0. Fix
+	up comment to talk only about backwards compat, not
+	forward/backwards compat. (#166293, reported by Vincent Noel)
+
 2005-02-04  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkentry.c (gtk_entry_create_layout): Avoid spurious
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
index 7aab1a2605..6fd1ed506e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-02-04  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Revert gtk_binary_version to 2.4.0. Fix
+	up comment to talk only about backwards compat, not
+	forward/backwards compat. (#166293, reported by Vincent Noel)
+
 2005-02-04  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkentry.c (gtk_entry_create_layout): Avoid spurious
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index fd1d9264d1..ee52580402 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ m4_define([gtk_binary_age],
 m4_define([gtk_api_version], [2.0])
 
 # Define a string for the earliest version that this release has
-# forward/backwards binary compatibility with. This is used for module
-# locations. (Should this be backwards-compat instead?)
+# backwards binary compatibility with for all interfaces a module
+# might. Unless we add module-only API with lower stability
+# guarantees, this should be unchanged until we break binary compat
+# for GTK+.
 #
 #GTK_BINARY_VERSION=$GTK_MAJOR_VERSION.$GTK_MINOR_VERSION.$LT_CURRENT
-m4_define([gtk_binary_version], [2.7.0])
+m4_define([gtk_binary_version], [2.4.0])
 
 # required versions of other packages
 m4_define([glib_required_version], [2.6.0])