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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ This project is supported by these kind people:
 
 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 1.13
+- Go 1.16
 - npm
 
 ### MacOS