diff --git a/src/scm/main.scm b/src/scm/main.scm
index f902dec5dc..3cb703eddb 100644
--- a/src/scm/main.scm
+++ b/src/scm/main.scm
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ string and 'directories' must be a list of strings."
      (_ "This is a development version. It may or may not work.\n")
      (_ "Report bugs and other problems to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org.\n")
      (_ "You can also lookup and file bug reports at http://bugzilla.gnome.org\n")
-     (_ "The last stable version was ") "GnuCash 1.8.5" "\n"
+     (_ "The last stable version was ") "GnuCash 1.8.7" "\n"
      (_ "The next stable version will be ") "GnuCash 1.10 or 2.0"
      "\n\n"))))