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-![nginx 1.7.11](https://img.shields.io/badge/nginx-1.7.11-brightgreen.svg) ![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)
+![nginx 1.9.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/nginx-1.9.0-brightgreen.svg) ![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)
 
 nginx-proxy sets up a container running nginx and [docker-gen][1].  docker-gen generates reverse proxy configs for nginx and reloads nginx when containers are started and stopped.