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 Installation of Gophish is dead-simple - just download and extract the zip containing the [release for your system](https://github.com/gophish/gophish/releases/), and run the binary. Gophish has binary releases for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
 
 ### Building From Source
-**If you are building from source, please note that Gophish requires Go v1.8 or above!**
+**If you are building from source, please note that Gophish requires Go v1.9 or above!**
 
 To build Gophish from source, simply run ```go get github.com/gophish/gophish``` and ```cd``` into the project source directory. Then, run ```go build```. After this, you should have a binary called ```gophish``` in the current directory.