diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ fish depends on a curses implementation, such as ncurses. The headers and librar
 
 fish requires gettext for translation support.
 
-Building the documentation requires Doxygen 1.8 or newer.
+Building the documentation requires Doxygen 1.8.7 or newer.
 
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