Indicate Shaderc's level of stability.
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 Revision history for Shaderc
 
 v2016.2-dev 2016-10-12
+ - Describe Shaderc's level of stability.
  - Support HLSL compilation, exposing functionality in Glslang.
    - Supported in C, C++ API
    - glslc accepts "-x hlsl", and assumes .hlsl files are HLSL.
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 ## Status
 
-Shaderc is approaching maturity, but is still subject to incompatible changes.
+Shaderc has maintained backward compatibility for quite some time, and we
+don't anticipate any breaking changes.
+Ongoing enhancements are described in the [CHANGES](CHANGES) file.
 
 Shaderc has been shipping in the
 [Android NDK](https://developer.android.com/ndk/index.html) since version r12b.