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 You can build Cage with the [meson](https://mesonbuild.com/) build system. It
 requires wayland, wlroots, and xkbcommon to be installed. Optionally, install
-scdoc for manual pages. Note that Cage is developed against the latest tag of
-wlroots, in order to not constantly chase breaking changes as soon as they
-occur.
+scdoc for manual pages. Cage is currently based on branch 0.17 of wlroots.
 
 Simply execute the following steps to build Cage: