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@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ You can find [instructions for Windows below](#windows-prerequisites-setup).
 
 ### Install meson and ninja
 
-Meson 0.52 or newer is required.
-
-For cross-compilation Meson 0.54 or newer is required.
+Meson 0.59 or newer is required.
 
 On Linux and macOS you can get meson through your package manager or using:
 
@@ -55,6 +53,20 @@ binary in your PATH.
 
 You can find [instructions for Windows below](#windows-prerequisites-setup).
 
+
+On macOS, you might need to execute "Install Certificates.command" from the
+Python folder in the user Applications folder:
+
+```
+$ /Applications/Python\ 3.*/Install\ Certificates.command
+```
+
+Otherwise you will get this error when downloading meson wraps:
+
+```
+urllib.error.URLError: urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed
+```
+
 ### Build GStreamer and its modules
 
 You can get all GStreamer built running:
@@ -207,9 +219,25 @@ All the selected features will be registered into a dedicated `NULL` plugin name
 
 This will cause the features/plugins that are not registered to not be included in the final gstreamer-full library.
 
-This is an experimental feature, backward uncompatible changes could still be
+This is an experimental feature, backward incompatible changes could still be
 made in the future.
 
+### Building documentation
+
+Documentation is not built by default because it is slow to generate. To build
+the documentation, first ensure that `hotdoc` is installed and `doc` option is
+enabled. For API documentation, gobject introspection must also be enabled.
+The special target `gst-doc` can then be used to (re)generate the documentation.
+
+```
+pip install hotdoc
+meson setup -Ddoc=enabled -Dintrospection=enabled builddir
+ninja -C builddir gst-doc
+```
+
+NOTE: To visualize the documentation, `devhelp` can be run inside the development
+environment (see below).
+
 # Development environment
 
 ## Development environment target
@@ -236,6 +264,9 @@ An external script can be run in development environment with:
 ./gst-env.py external_script.sh
 ```
 
+For more extensive documentation about the development environment go to [the
+documentation](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/building-from-source-using-meson.html).
+
 ## Custom subprojects
 
 We also added a meson option, `custom_subprojects`, that allows the user
@@ -386,12 +417,6 @@ Note that Meson is written entirely in Python, so you can also run it as-is
 from the [git repository](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/) if you want to
 use the latest master branch for some reason.
 
-**ARM64 native only**: You might need
-[native upstream ARM64 support fix](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/7432)
-which is expected to be a part of Meson 0.55.1.
-If your Meson package version which was installed via `pip3` is lower than 0.55.1,
-then you need to use [the latest master branch](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/).
-
 ### Running Meson on Windows
 
 At present, to build with Visual Studio, you need to run Meson from inside the
@@ -431,13 +456,13 @@ git clone https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson.git
 ```
 BUILDDIR=$PWD/winebuild/
 export WINEPREFIX=$BUILDDIR/wine-prefix/ && mkdir -p $WINEPREFIX
-# Setting the prefix is mandatory as it is used to setup symlinks during uninstalled development
+# Setting the prefix is mandatory as it is used to setup symlinks within the development environment
 meson/meson.py $BUILDDIR --cross-file meson/cross/linux-mingw-w64-64bit.txt -Dgst-plugins-bad:vulkan=disabled -Dorc:gtk_doc=disabled --prefix=$BUILDDIR/wininstall/ -Djson-glib:gtk_doc=disabled
 meson/meson.py install -C $BUILDDIR/
 ```
 
 > __NOTE__: You should use `meson install -C $BUILDDIR`  each time you make a change
-> instead of the usual `ninja -C build` as the environment is not uninstalled.
+> instead of the usual `ninja -C build` as this is not in the development environment.
 
 #### The development environment