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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Wails is currently in Beta. Please make sure you read the [Project Status](https
 
 Wails uses cgo to bind to the native rendering engines so a number of platform dependent libraries are needed as well as an installation of Go. The basic requirements are:
 
-- Go 1.11 or above
+- Go 1.12
 - npm
 
 ### MacOS