diff --git a/releasing.txt b/releasing.txt
index 52adaa3f..fe6aa599 100644
--- a/releasing.txt
+++ b/releasing.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ To make a release of Weston and/or Wayland, follow these steps.
 
       $ make check
 
-  1.  Update the first three lines of configure.ac to the intended
+  1.  Verify that the wayland-protocols version dependency is correct,
+      and that wayland-protocols has had a release with any needed
+      protocol updates.
+
+  2.  Update the first three lines of configure.ac to the intended
       version, commit.  Also note that Weston includes versioned
       dependencies on 'wayland-server' and 'wayland-client' in
       configure.ac which occasionally need updated as well.  Then commit
@@ -17,7 +21,7 @@ To make a release of Weston and/or Wayland, follow these steps.
       $ git commit configure.ac -m "configure.ac: bump to version $RELEASE_NUMBER for the $RELEASE_NAME release"
       $ git push
 
-  2.  For Weston releases, install Xwayland, either from your distro or
+  3.  For Weston releases, install Xwayland, either from your distro or
       manually (see http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html).  If
       you install it to a location other than /usr/bin/Xwayland, specify
       this in the following env var:
@@ -33,7 +37,7 @@ To make a release of Weston and/or Wayland, follow these steps.
       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$WLD/lib
       export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$WLD/lib/pkgconfig:$WLD/share/pkgconfig/
 
-  3.  Run the release.sh script to generate the tarballs, sign and
+  4.  Run the release.sh script to generate the tarballs, sign and
       upload them, and generate a release announcement template.
       This script can be obtained from X.org's modular package:
 
@@ -53,19 +57,19 @@ To make a release of Weston and/or Wayland, follow these steps.
       $ ./publish-doc
 
 
-  4.  Compose the release announcements.  The script will generate
+  5.  Compose the release announcements.  The script will generate
       *.x.y.0.announce files with a list of changes and tags, one for
       wayland, one for weston.  Prepend these with a human-readable
       listing of the most notable changes.  For x.y.0 releases, indicate
       the schedule for the x.y+1.0 release.
 
-  5.  pgp sign the the release announcements and send them to
+  6.  pgp sign the the release announcements and send them to
       wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
 
-  6.  Get your freshly posted release email URL from
+  7.  Get your freshly posted release email URL from
       http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/
 
-  7.  Update releases.html in wayland-web with links to tarballs and
+  8.  Update releases.html in wayland-web with links to tarballs and
       the release email URL.
 
       The register_release script in wayland-web will generate an HTML
@@ -79,7 +83,7 @@ To make a release of Weston and/or Wayland, follow these steps.
       $ git push
       $ ./deploy
 
-  8.  Update topic in #wayland to point to the release announcement URL
+  9.  Update topic in #wayland to point to the release announcement URL
 
 For x.y.0 releases, also create the release series x.y branch.  The x.y
 branch is for bug fixes and conservative changes to the x.y.0 release,