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@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ Piwik is released under the GPL v3 (or later) license, see [misc/gpl-3.0.txt](mi
 
 ## Requirements
 
-  * PHP 5.3.3 or greater
-  * MySQL 4.1 or greater, and either MySQLi or PDO library must be enabled
+  * PHP 5.5.9 or greater
+  * MySQL version 5.5 or greater, or MariaDB 
+  * PHP extension pdo and pdo_mysql, or the MySQLi extension.
   * Piwik is OS / server independent
 
 See http://piwik.org/docs/requirements/