diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1438c9d29..e139df604 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ All notable changes to Gogs are documented in this file.
 
 ### Changed
 
+- The required Go version to compile source code changed to 1.13.
 - All assets are now embedded into binary and served from memory by default. Set `[server] LOAD_ASSETS_FROM_DISK = true` to load them from disk. [#5920](https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/5920)
 - Application and Go versions are removed from page footer and only show in the admin dashboard.
 - Build tag for running as Windows Service has been changed from `miniwinsvc` to `minwinsvc`.
diff --git a/gogs.go b/gogs.go
index 4a93bed1b..8ee85a32b 100644
--- a/gogs.go
+++ b/gogs.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// +build go1.12
+// +build go1.13
 
 // Copyright 2014 The Gogs Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style