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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Leaflet.markercluster
 
 Provides Beautiful Animated Marker Clustering functionality for [Leaflet](http://leafletjs.com), a JS library for interactive maps.
 
-*Requires Leaflet 0.6.0 or newer.*
+*Requires Leaflet 0.7.0 or newer.*
 
 For a Leaflet 0.5 compatible version, [Download b128e950](https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.markercluster/archive/b128e950d8f5d7da5b60bd0aa9a88f6d3dd17c98.zip)<br>
 For a Leaflet 0.4 compatible version, [Download the 0.2 release](https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.markercluster/archive/0.2.zip)