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 ## Installation
 
-To add PHP_CodeCoverage as a local, per-project dependency to your project, simply add a dependency on `phpunit/php-code-coverage` to your project's `composer.json` file. Here is a minimal example of a `composer.json` file that just defines a dependency on PHP_CodeCoverage 2.1:
+To add PHP_CodeCoverage as a local, per-project dependency to your project, simply add a dependency on `phpunit/php-code-coverage` to your project's `composer.json` file. Here is a minimal example of a `composer.json` file that just defines a dependency on PHP_CodeCoverage 3.0:
 
     {
         "require": {