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 <h1>System Recommendations</h1>
 <ul>
-	<li>PHP version <strong>4.2</strong> or higher.</li>
+	<li>PHP version <strong>4.3</strong> or higher.</li>
 	<li>MySQL version <strong>4.0</strong> or higher.</li>
 	<li>... and a link to <a href="http://wordpress.org/">http://wordpress.org</a> on your site.</li>
 </ul>