diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 53b638e0c..499ad6270 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ Version 1.7.0beta16 [July 3, 2013]
   Updated documentation to show default behavior of benign errors correctly.
   Added perfect hash code generation for lists of PNG chunks. This is
     a work in progress; checked in for use in pngfix.c
+  Ported ARM no-read patch from libpng16.
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 876c28101..8511ab869 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4628,6 +4628,7 @@ Version 1.7.0beta16 [July 3, 2013]
   Updated documentation to show default behavior of benign errors correctly.
   Added perfect hash code generation for lists of PNG chunks. This is
     a work in progress; checked in for use in pngfix.c
+  Ported ARM no-read patch from libpng16.
 
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diff --git a/arm/arm_init.c b/arm/arm_init.c
index 36eacde9e..33d667292 100644
--- a/arm/arm_init.c
+++ b/arm/arm_init.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #include "../pngpriv.h"
 
+#ifdef PNG_READ_SUPPORTED
 #if PNG_ARM_NEON_OPT > 0
 #ifdef PNG_ARM_NEON_CHECK_SUPPORTED /* Do run-time checks */
 #include <signal.h> /* for sig_atomic_t */
@@ -217,3 +218,4 @@ png_init_filter_functions_neon(png_structp pp, unsigned int bpp)
    }
 }
 #endif /* PNG_ARM_NEON_OPT > 0 */
+#endif /* PNG_READ_SUPPORTED */
diff --git a/arm/filter_neon.S b/arm/filter_neon.S
index 9c0cab9d6..73520dd81 100644
--- a/arm/filter_neon.S
+++ b/arm/filter_neon.S
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 .section .note.GNU-stack,"",%progbits /* mark stack as non-executable */
 #endif
 
+#ifdef PNG_READ_SUPPORTED
 #if PNG_ARM_NEON_OPT > 0
 
 #ifdef __ELF__
@@ -233,3 +234,4 @@ func    png_read_filter_row_paeth3_neon, export=1
         pop             {r4,pc}
 endfunc
 #endif /* PNG_ARM_NEON_OPT > 0 */
+#endif /* PNG_READ_SUPPORTED */