diff --git a/COMPILE.md b/COMPILE.md
index 0a79893..29e6c7c 100644
--- a/COMPILE.md
+++ b/COMPILE.md
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ A quick and dirty way to produce the binaries of `mtdbconverter`,
     $ ls $GOPATH/bin
     mtdbconverter  mtredisalize  mtseeder  mtwebmapper
 
-Using [Go1.7beta2](https://golang.org/dl/#go1.7beta2) improves the performance
+Using [Go1.7](https://golang.org/dl/#go1.7rc1) improves the performance
 of MTSatellite up to 15% on AMD64 machines. To use this experimental/unstable
 compiler toolchain replace the `wget` command mentioned above with:
 
-    $ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7beta2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+    $ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7rc1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
 
-    $ echo "688f895b51def9e065fb2610ff91afcb2b0d9637233b74130c8ca331d35d5ca5 go1.7beta2.linux-amd64.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c -
+    $ echo "afe956b6d323c68fbd851f4e962f26f16dde61d7caa1de1a8408c7de0b6034aa go1.7rc1.linux-amd64.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c -