=== INSTALL
==================================================================
--- INSTALL	(revision 51884)
+++ INSTALL	(local)
@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@
       The Neon library allows a Subversion client to interact with remote
       repositories over the Internet via a WebDAV based protocol.  If you
       want to use Subversion to connect to a server over ra_dav (via a
-      http:// or https:// url), you will require Neon.
+      http:// or https:// url), you will require Neon.  (See also section
+      I.11 for information about "serf", an experimental alternative to
+      Neon for accessing servers over WebDAV.)
 
       The source code is included with the latest Subversion tarball,
       and it can also be obtained from:
@@ -288,8 +290,23 @@
       version if MASM is not compatible with MSVC 6).
 
 
-      11. Libraries for our libraries
+      11. serf library
 
+      serf is a library for HTTP and WebDAV which is an alternative to
+      Neon for accessing Subversion repositories over http:// and
+      https:// URLs.  serf is designed as an asynchronous library
+      which can take advantage of HTTP pipelining, so ra_serf may be
+      more efficient than the Neon-based ra_dav.  The serf library can
+      be found at:
+
+          http://code.google.com/p/serf/
+
+      In order to use ra_serf instead of ra_dav, you must install ra_serf,
+      and run Subversion's ./configure with the arguments XXX.
+
+
+      12. Libraries for our libraries
+
       Some of the libraries that Subversion depends on themselves have
       optional dependencies that can add features to what Subversion
       can do.  Here are some examples.
@@ -350,7 +367,7 @@
       The Windows build scripts will compile the ZLib sources.
 
 
-      12. Documentation
+      13. Documentation
 
       The primary documentation for Subversion is the free book
       "Version Control with Subversion", a.k.a. "The Subversion Book",