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 ## Quick Start
 
-To use cosmos4s in an existing SBT project with Scala 2.11 or a later version, add the following dependencies to your
+To use cosmos4s in an existing SBT project with Scala 2.12 or a later version, add the following dependencies to your
 `build.sbt` depending on your needs:
 
 ```scala