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 <h1>System Recommendations</h1>
 <ul>
 	<li>PHP version <strong>4.3</strong> or higher.</li>
-	<li>MySQL version <strong>4.0</strong> or higher.</li>
+	<li>MySQL version <strong>4.1.2</strong> or higher.</li>
 	<li>... and a link to <a href="http://wordpress.org/">http://wordpress.org</a> on your site.</li>
 </ul>
 <p>WordPress is the official continuation of <a href="http://cafelog.com/">b2/caf&eacute;log</a>, which came from Michel V. The work has been continued by the <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/">WordPress developers</a>. If you would like to support WordPress, please consider <a href="http://wordpress.org/donate/">donating</a>.</p>