diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 8eb499f4e..faba1f09c 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -32,6 +32,28 @@ Solaris (gcc and SUN cc) --- saturn.ai.mit.edu
 NetBSD (gcc) --- repo-man.ai.mit.edu (use /home/repo/jimb)
 HP/UX (gcc, HP cc) --- nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu
 
+These gentlemen has kindly offered to do pre-release testing:
+
+Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>:
+
+  alphaev5-unknown-linux-gnu
+  hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
+  hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.00
+  mips-sgi-irix5.3
+  powerpc-ibm-aix4.2.0.0
+  powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
+  sparc-sun-solaris2.6
+  i686-pc-linux-gnu
+  mips-sgi-irix6.3
+  sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
+
+Ian Grant <I.A.N.Grant@damtp.cam.ac.uk>:
+
+  alpha-dec-osf4.0e  
+
+Julian Satchell <satchell@merry.dra.hmg.gb>:
+
+  dec-mips-ultrix
 
 1) Check that the versions of aclocal, automake, autoconf, and autoheader
    in your PATH match those given in README.  Note that the `make
@@ -66,15 +88,23 @@ HP/UX (gcc, HP cc) --- nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu
    e) Run autoheader.
 10) Commit all changes to the CVS repository.
 11) Verify that the disty works, too:
-    a) Make a disty, using 'make dist'.
-    b) Unpack it somewhere else.
-    c) Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off their
+    a) BEFORE doing 'make dist', configure the source tree for build
+       in the same tree with configuration option --with-threads.
+       Make sure that readline was enabled correctly.
+       If this is not done, there will be missing dependencies in two
+       Makefile.in.
+    b) Make a disty, using 'make dist'.
+    c) Unpack it somewhere else.
+    d) Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off their
        execute bits, or something.  (Users should be able to build disty
        without installing those tools.)
-    d) Configure, make, and install.
-    e) Test the installed version; don't forget to unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH.
-    f) Test the example code in the doc directory. 
-    g) If you made any fixes, commit them, and start from a) again
+    e) Configure, make, and install.
+    f) Test the installed version; don't forget to unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH.
+    g) Test the example code in the doc directory.
+    h) Give the volunteer pre-release testers above a few days to run
+       the distribution on their systems (make the disty available to them
+       via ftp).
+    j) If you made any fixes, commit them, and start from a) again
 11a) Add "Guile N.M released." entry to ChangeLog, and commit it.
 12) Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form "release_N_M".
 13) Copy the tar file over to the GNU machines, and send mail to