diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ffa3ae0..9935841 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ making tests pass!
 The only things you need to run the Clojure Koans are:
 
 - JRE 1.5 or higher
-- [clojure-1.3.0-alpha3.jar](https://github.com/downloads/clojure/clojure/clojure-1.3.0-alpha3.zip)
+- [clojure-1.3.0-alpha4.jar](https://github.com/downloads/clojure/clojure/clojure-1.3.0-alpha4.zip)
 
-clojure-1.3.0-alpha3.jar needs to be placed in a directory `lib` under this
-project.
+clojure-1.3.0-alpha4.jar needs to be in a directory `lib` under this project.
 
 You can use [Leiningen](http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) to
 automatically install the Clojure jar in the right place. Leiningen will also
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index e514733..2e46a94 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 (defproject functional-koans "0.2.0"
   :description "The functional koans"
-  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0-alpha3"]
+  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0-alpha4"]
                  [jline "0.9.94"]])