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 If you wish to work on Nomad itself or any of its built-in systems,
 you will first need [Go](https://www.golang.org) installed on your
-machine (version 1.7+ is *required*).
+machine (version 1.8+ is *required*).
 
 **Developing with Vagrant**
 There is an included Vagrantfile that can help bootstrap the process. The