diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index a01992d9..49976c26 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ### v0.23 - "*vision*"
 
-Requires libvips v8.8.0.
+Requires libvips v8.8.1.
 
 #### v0.23.0 - TBD
 
diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md
index 3e870871..daa8d0ce 100644
--- a/docs/install.md
+++ b/docs/install.md
@@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ Most Linux-based (glibc, musl) operating systems running on x64 and ARMv6+ CPUs
 
 * Debian 8+
 * Ubuntu 14.04+
-* Red Hat Enterprise 8
-* CentOS 8
-* Alpine 3.8+
-* Fedora
+* Red Hat Enterprise 7+
+* CentOS 7+
+* Alpine 3.10+
+* Fedora 21+
 * openSUSE 13.2+
 * Archlinux
 * Raspbian Jessie
-* Amazon Linux 2
+* Amazon Linux
 * Solus
 
 To use a globally-installed version of libvips instead of the provided binaries,
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ and `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` at runtime.
 This allows the use of newer versions of libvips with older versions of sharp.
 
 For 32-bit Intel CPUs and older Linux-based operating systems such as
-those based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (e.g. CentOS 7, Amazon Linux 1)
+those based on Red Hat Enterprise 6 (e.g. CentOS 6)
 compiling libvips from source is recommended.
 
 [https://libvips.github.io/libvips/install.html#building-libvips-from-a-source-tarball](https://libvips.github.io/libvips/install.html#building-libvips-from-a-source-tarball)
diff --git a/install/libvips.js b/install/libvips.js
index 39fd4cfa..38121baa 100644
--- a/install/libvips.js
+++ b/install/libvips.js
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ try {
     if (platformAndArch === 'freebsd-x64' || platformAndArch === 'openbsd-x64' || platformAndArch === 'sunos-x64') {
       throw new Error(`BSD/SunOS systems require manual installation of libvips >= ${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
     }
-    if (detectLibc.family === detectLibc.GLIBC && detectLibc.version && semver.lt(`${detectLibc.version}.0`, '2.19.0')) {
+    if (detectLibc.family === detectLibc.GLIBC && detectLibc.version && semver.lt(`${detectLibc.version}.0`, '2.17.0')) {
       throw new Error(`Use with glibc version ${detectLibc.version} requires manual installation of libvips >= ${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
     }
     // Download to per-process temporary file
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 41985949..bf36f1c7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
   },
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "config": {
-    "libvips": "8.8.0"
+    "libvips": "8.8.1"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=8.5.0"