diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ### HEAD
 
+ * Minimum nginx version upped from 1.2.1 to current stable, 1.6.0
+
 ### 1.0.0 (October 24 2014)
 
 Initial stable release
diff --git a/doc/usage.md b/doc/usage.md
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--- a/doc/usage.md
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 ## Requirements
 
- * nginx version 1.2.1+
+ * nginx version 1.6.0+
 
 There are two ways to make use of the contents of this repository, as a reference
 or directly as the source for nginx to run from. A number of config snippets are