diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 139dfda8..79f65256 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 - revise ppmload, fixing a couple of small bugs
 - signal error on EOF in jpegload more reliably [bozaro]
 - better error detection in spngload [randy408]
+- fix includes of glib headers in C++ [lovell]
+- fix build with more modern librsvg [lovell]
 
 18/12/20 started 8.10.5
 - fix potential /0 in animated webp load [lovell]
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/svgload.c b/libvips/foreign/svgload.c
index 4a8c2b1c..45c2e3f8 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/svgload.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/svgload.c
@@ -80,13 +80,6 @@
  */
 #define RSVG_MAX_WIDTH (32767)
 
-/* Old librsvg versions don't include librsvg-features.h by default.
- * Newer versions deprecate direct inclusion.
- */
-#ifndef LIBRSVG_FEATURES_H
-#include <librsvg/librsvg-features.h>
-#endif
-
 /* A handy #define for we-will-handle-svgz.
  */
 #if LIBRSVG_CHECK_FEATURE(SVGZ) && defined(HAVE_ZLIB)