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@@ -45,6 +45,19 @@ Refactoring
 
 .. _w3lib.url: http://w3lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/w3lib.html#w3lib.url.canonicalize_url
 
+Tests & Requirements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Scrapy's new requirements baseline is Debian 8 "Jessie". It was previously
+Ubuntu 12.04 Precise.
+What this means in practice is that we run continuous integration tests
+with these (main) packages versions at a minimum:
+Twisted 14.0, pyOpenSSL 0.14, lxml 3.4.
+
+Scrapy may very well work with older versions of these packages
+(the code base still has switches for older Twisted versions for example)
+but it is not guaranteed (because it's not tested anymore).
+
 Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~