diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index bf56ea0af..56d15da0b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,16 +6,28 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Daniel (16 March 2001)
+- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back.
+
+- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release
+  archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs,
+  examples and updates you think fit.
+
+- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples
+  into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please
+  help me here as well!
 
 Daniel (15 March 2001)
 - Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
   option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the
   connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire
-  file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and more.
+  file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others.
 
   I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the
   item from the TODO.
 
+Version 7.7-beta4
+
 Daniel (14 March 2001)
 - Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely
   again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set.
diff --git a/CVS-INFO b/CVS-INFO
index 68836fa73..c73f4a09a 100644
--- a/CVS-INFO
+++ b/CVS-INFO
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ memanalyze.pl is for analyzing the output generated by curl if -DMALLOCDEBUG
 
 Makefile.dist is included as the root Makefile in distribution archives
 
-perl/         is a subdirectory with various perl scripts
+perl/contrib/ is a subdirectory with various perl scripts
 
 To build after having extracted everything from CVS, do this:
 
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index eb73ca708..4bed9a507 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	CHANGES LEGAL maketgz MITX.txt MPL-1.1.txt \
 	config-win32.h reconf packages/README Makefile.dist
 
-SUBDIRS = docs lib src include tests packages
+SUBDIRS = docs lib src include tests packages perl php
 
 # create a root makefile in the distribution:
 dist-hook: