From 56834ab779f82858c9229809e8095771ae48ac8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:37:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] installation.md: drop python 3.6 support (#11781)

#11595 dropped support for python 3.6, but forgot to update this doc.
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 changelog.d/11781.doc      | 1 +
 docs/setup/installation.md | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/11781.doc

diff --git a/changelog.d/11781.doc b/changelog.d/11781.doc
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/11781.doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Update installation instructions to note that Python 3.6 is no longer supported.
diff --git a/docs/setup/installation.md b/docs/setup/installation.md
index 210c80daced8..fe657a15dfa6 100644
--- a/docs/setup/installation.md
+++ b/docs/setup/installation.md
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ When following this route please make sure that the [Platform-specific prerequis
 System requirements:
 
 - POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
-- Python 3.6 or later, up to Python 3.9.
+- Python 3.7 or later, up to Python 3.9.
 - At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
 
 To install the Synapse homeserver run: