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 ## Overview
 
 Cpancover requires a bourne shell, plenv, and docker, as well as a recent perl.
-The code requires Perl 5.16.0 but earlier versions may work.
+The code requires Perl 5.26.0 but earlier versions may work.
 
 ## Docker