From 79daa71350b522292b333ffc7124f724428fde2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bergquist <carl.bergquist@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:37:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: update golang requirement to 1.8

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                 | 1 +
 README.md                                    | 2 +-
 appveyor.yml                                 | 2 +-
 build.go                                     | 2 +-
 docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7870a15b51c..926492093a4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 ## Tech
 
 * **Library Upgrade**: Upgraded angularjs from 1.5.8 to 1.6.1 [#7274](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7274)
+* **Backend**: Grafana is now built using golang 1.8
 
 ## Bugfixes
 * **Alerting**: Fixes missing support for no_data and execution error when testing alerts [#7149](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7149)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index adf4270654a..041a94c8432 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ the latest master builds [here](http://grafana.org/builds)
 
 ### Dependencies
 
-- Go 1.7.3
+- Go 1.8
 - NodeJS v4+
 
 ### Get Code
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index d0c1bfb0eaa..07046264854 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ clone_folder: c:\gopath\src\github.com\grafana\grafana
 environment:
   nodejs_version: "6"
   GOPATH: c:\gopath
-  GOVERSION: 1.7.4
+  GOVERSION: 1.8
 
 install:
   # install nodejs and npm
diff --git a/build.go b/build.go
index f525d798b76..73f641bfec3 100644
--- a/build.go
+++ b/build.go
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ var (
 	binaries              []string = []string{"grafana-server", "grafana-cli"}
 )
 
-const minGoVersion = 1.7
+const minGoVersion = 1.8
 
 func main() {
 	log.SetOutput(os.Stdout)
diff --git a/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md b/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md
index 195c71d99a8..4b5291dc887 100644
--- a/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md
+++ b/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dev environment. Grafana ships with its own required backend server; also comple
 
 ## Dependencies
 
-- [Go 1.7.3](https://golang.org/dl/)
+- [Go 1.8](https://golang.org/dl/)
 - [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/download/)
 
 ## Get Code