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@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ Julia uses the following external libraries, which are automatically downloaded
 - **[SuiteSparse]** (>= 4.1) — library of linear algebra routines for sparse matrices (see [note below](#suitesparse)).
 - **[PCRE]** (>= 10.00)      — Perl-compatible regular expressions library.
 - **[GMP]** (>= 5.0)         — GNU multiple precision arithmetic library, needed for `BigInt` support.
-- **[MPFR]** (>= 3.0)        — GNU multiple precision floating point library, needed for arbitrary precision floating point (`BigFloat`) support.
+- **[MPFR]** (>= 4.0)        — GNU multiple precision floating point library, needed for arbitrary precision floating point (`BigFloat`) support.
 - **[libgit2]** (>= 0.23)    — Git linkable library, used by Julia's package manager.
 - **[curl]** (>= 7.50)       — libcurl provides download and proxy support for Julia's package manager.
 - **[libssh2]** (>= 1.7)     — library for SSH transport, used by libgit2 for packages with SSH remotes.