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 ## Requirements
-* **Rust** - Rust-Postgres is developed against the 1.5 release of Rust
+* **Rust** - Rust-Postgres is developed against the 1.6 release of Rust
     available on http://www.rust-lang.org. It should also compile against more
     recent releases.