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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Kibana is an open source ([Apache Licensed](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/bl
 
 ## Requirements
 
-- Elasticsearch version 2.0.0 or later
+- Elasticsearch version 2.1.0 or later
 - Kibana binary package
 
 ## Installation