-compilers knows a bit about the C++ standard. Compilers that are known
-to compile LyX are gcc 2.8.1 and 2.95.x, the various versions of egcs
-and Digital C++ version 6.1. Please tell us your experience with other
-compilers.
+compilers are close to C++ standard conforming. Compilers that are
+known to compile LyX are egcs 1.1.x, gcc 2.95.x and later, and Digital
+C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your experience with other
+compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x and
+2.8.x, and this is not likely to change in the future.
+
+Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.1.x makes great use of C++
+Standard Template Library (STL); this means that gcc users will have
+to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this
+version.