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 In case everything went well, the C<korapxml2krill> tool will
 be available on your command line immediately.
-Minimum requirement for L<KorAP::XML::Krill> is Perl 5.14.
+Minimum requirement for L<KorAP::XML::Krill> is Perl 5.16.
 In addition to work with zip archives, the C<unzip> tool needs to be present.
 
 =head1 ARGUMENTS