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 ### Building from source
 
 To build Prometheus from the source code yourself you need to have a working
-Go environment with [version 1.5 or greater installed](http://golang.org/doc/install).
+Go environment with [version 1.8 or greater installed](http://golang.org/doc/install).
 
 You can directly use the `go` tool to download and install the `prometheus`
 and `promtool` binaries into your `GOPATH`. We use Go 1.5's experimental