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 ## Minimum Rust version policy
 
-This crate's minimum supported `rustc` version is 1.28, as this is the currently known minimum version for [`regex`](https://crates.io/crates/regex#minimum-rust-version-policy) as well.
+This crate's minimum supported `rustc` version is 1.31 (released with Rust 2018, after v0.4.3), as this is the currently known minimum version for [`regex`](https://crates.io/crates/regex#minimum-rust-version-policy) as well.
 
 ## License