diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index d3b42ff8b3..bb715d30b5 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "01">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "02">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "04">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2016">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 1st &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 2nd &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
 <!ENTITY lfs-version  "development">          <!-- x.y|development] -->
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index dbdca1cfa8..51aeff08bd 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
 
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>April 2nd, 2016</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Add desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info
+          as recommended dependencies for fontforge.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>April 1st, 2016</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml b/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml
index d46ce7a7ed..3053933039 100644
--- a/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml
+++ b/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@
     <para role="required">
       <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
       <xref linkend="glib2"/>,  and
-      <xref linkend="libxml2"/>, also
-      <xref linkend="wget"/> if you want to run the tests
+      <xref linkend="libxml2"/>
     </para>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
@@ -88,7 +87,9 @@
       <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
       <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
       <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/>,
-      <xref linkend="pango"/> (required if Xorg libraries are present), and
+      <xref linkend="pango"/> (required if Xorg libraries are present)
+      <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>,
+      <xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/>, and
       <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
     </para>
 
@@ -99,6 +100,7 @@
       <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
       <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
       <xref linkend="python2"/>,
+      <xref linkend="wget"/> (needed for tests),
       <ulink url="http://ipython.org/">IPython</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro">libspiro</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/libunicodenames">