diff --git a/legacy/evas/README b/legacy/evas/README
index 70738a8ef6..eda10246e8 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/README
+++ b/legacy/evas/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-                                E V A S - 0.0.5
+                                E V A S - 0.5.0
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 This is the ``E Canvas'' - a rip off of some of the other canvas's floating
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ about - Tk and gnome too. it's at the Xlib level. it's intended to be
 accelerated by hardware or highly optimised software where possible. It is
 intended to be simple and allow for the building of interfaces ontop of it.
 
+What you NEED:
+* Imlib2 1.0.3 or higher (and development headers)
+* Freetype 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 - NOT 2.0 and development headers
+* X11R6 and development headersand libraries
+
+If you want hardware acceleration to be available:
+* OpenGL 1.0 and headers, with hardware accel support and an Xserver with 
+that too - your milage will vary (Xfree86 4.0 with DRI or Nvidia drivers for
+example). make sure you dont have mutliepl libGL's and multiple GL headers
+on your system. Rememebr most GL drivers are buggy and you will experience
+problems. See your driver maintainers for these :)
+
 if you got this from cvs do:
 ./autogen.sh
 
diff --git a/legacy/evas/configure.in b/legacy/evas/configure.in
index 3e5e602f10..93fec5c7a2 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/configure.in
+++ b/legacy/evas/configure.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_INIT(src/Evas.h)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(evas, 0.0.5)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(evas, 0.5.0)
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 AC_PROG_CC
 AM_PROG_CC_STDC
diff --git a/legacy/evas/evas.spec b/legacy/evas/evas.spec
index 99b2539f71..30f7440484 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/evas.spec
+++ b/legacy/evas/evas.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # this is NOT relocatable, unless you alter the patch!
 %define	name	evas
-%define	ver	0.0.4
+%define	ver	0.5.0
 %define	rel	1
 %define prefix  /usr
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Packager: Term <kempler@utdallas.edu>
 Vendor: The Enlightenment Development Team <e-develop@enlightenment.org>
 Source: ftp://ftp.enlightenment.org/enlightenment/%{name}-%{ver}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-root
-Requires: imlib2 >= 1.0.2
+Requires: imlib2 >= 1.0.3
 
 %description
 Evas is an advanced canvas library, providing three backends for
diff --git a/legacy/evas/src/Makefile.am b/legacy/evas/src/Makefile.am
index 9ebd2ea666..7e4742bac6 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/legacy/evas/src/Makefile.am
@@ -59,4 +59,4 @@ Evas_private.h
 
 libevas_la_LIBADD       = $(LIBS_ALL)
 libevas_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(top_builddir)/config.h
-libevas_la_LDFLAGS      = -version-info 0:5:0
+libevas_la_LDFLAGS      = -version-info 5:0:5