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 ## Requirements
-* **Rust** - Rust-Postgres is developed against the nightly releases on
-    http://www.rust-lang.org.
+* **Rust** - Rust-Postgres is developed against the 1.0.0 beta release of Rust
+    available on http://www.rust-lang.org. It should also compile against more
+    recent unstable releases.
 
 * **PostgreSQL 7.4 or later** - Rust-Postgres speaks version 3 of the
     PostgreSQL protocol, which corresponds to versions 7.4 and later. If your