diff --git a/BuildGit.txt b/BuildGit.txt
index 5c827b5eff..2ffc25e263 100644
--- a/BuildGit.txt
+++ b/BuildGit.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
                 How to build the sources from git
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+When cloning the repository, use --recurse-submodules option. If you had
+already cloned it without it, run "git submodule update --init" to also
+get all 3rd party libraries code.
+
 Before building from git sources under Windows, you need to copy the
 file include/wx/msw/setup0.h to include/wx/msw/setup.h. This is
 necessary in order to allow having local modifications to the latter
diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 2a25761bfd..5e464c7632 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ All:
 - Fix wxRmdir() with non-ASCII paths (trivia21).
 - Don't crash in wxFFile::Eof() or Error() on closed file (jprotopopov).
 - Add UTF-8 support to wxZipOutputStream (Tobias Taschner).
+- Update all bundled 3rd party libraries to their latest versions.
 
 All (GUI):