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 ## V8 dependency
 
-V8 version: 8.0.426.15
+V8 version: 8.7.220.31
 
 In order to make `v8go` usable as a standard Go package, prebuilt static libraries of V8
 are included for Linux and OSX ie. you *should not* require to build V8 yourself.