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 Ethereum Go Development package (C) Jeffrey Wilcke
 
 Ethereum is currently in its testing phase. The current state is "Proof
-of Concept 0.5.16". For build instructions see the [Wiki](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Building-Ethereum(Go)).
+of Concept 0.5.20". For build instructions see the [Wiki](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Building-Ethereum(Go)).
 
 Ethereum Go is split up in several sub packages Please refer to each
 individual package for more information.