diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 73ff68fbc..fbe4ec442 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Shuode Li <elemount at qq.com>
 Soroush Pour <me at soroushjp.com>
 Stan Putrya <root.vagner at gmail.com>
 Stanley Gunawan <gunawan.stanley at gmail.com>
+Thomas Wodarek <wodarekwebpage at gmail.com>
 Xiangyu Hu <xiangyu.hu at outlook.com>
 Xiaobing Jiang <s7v7nislands at gmail.com>
 Xiuming Chen <cc at cxm.cc>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2e9b07eeb..7e7df1a3d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ A MySQL-Driver for Go's [database/sql](https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/) pac
   * Optional placeholder interpolation
 
 ## Requirements
-  * Go 1.7 or higher. We aim to support the 3 latest versions of Go.
+  * Go 1.8 or higher. We aim to support the 3 latest versions of Go.
   * MySQL (4.1+), MariaDB, Percona Server, Google CloudSQL or Sphinx (2.2.3+)
 
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