diff --git a/docs/introduction-to-smart-contracts.rst b/docs/introduction-to-smart-contracts.rst
index 556d486f7..39454ece1 100644
--- a/docs/introduction-to-smart-contracts.rst
+++ b/docs/introduction-to-smart-contracts.rst
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ GPL version 3.0. Machine-readable license specifiers are important
 in a setting where publishing the source code is the default.
 
 The next line specifies that the source code is written for
-Solidity version 0.4.16, or a newer version of the language up to, but not including version 0.7.0.
+Solidity version 0.4.16, or a newer version of the language up to, but not including version 0.8.0.
 This is to ensure that the contract is not compilable with a new (breaking) compiler version, where it could behave differently.
 :ref:`Pragmas<pragma>` are common instructions for compilers about how to treat the
 source code (e.g. `pragma once <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma_once>`_).