From 447ae1fd2f87c59f657f5c495f3db2612256717e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Wodarek <wodarekwebpage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:34:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md to remove 1.7 support doc (#829)

* Update README.md to remove 1.7 support doc

Per commit https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/commit/749ddf1598b47e3cd909414bda735fe790ef3d30, 1.7 support was removed, so this will fix the docs to reflect that change.

* Add myself to AUTHORS
---
 AUTHORS   | 1 +
 README.md | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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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