diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index fb8f955ab6295bf3657841f6f427af1c6016cf14..f8ab011d6a2d3442f51f26b965b99359cdb28a2c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ https://jira.mongodb.org/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=12483&issuetype=1
 
 This library may be installed or upgraded with:
 
-    composer require "mongodb/mongodb=^1.0.0"
+    composer require mongodb/mongodb
 
 Installation instructions for the PHP and HHVM driver may be found in the [PHP.net documentation](http://php.net/manual/en/mongodb.installation.php).
 ```
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dfcc02864d59291b63e9a125b1f5550a6e3687fe..90bd8d8f310c11121bbadb5a112f956d729c2ac7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The preferred method of installing this library is with
 [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) by running the following from your project
 root:
 
-    $ composer require "mongodb/mongodb=^1.0.0"
+    $ composer require mongodb/mongodb
 
 ## Reporting Issues
 
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/install-php-library.txt b/docs/tutorial/install-php-library.txt
index 39f57246296e3a55097b4fa59f12d69cc81440f0..74cf0e46e725a3fe816c24390675fb3b342d2fc6 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/install-php-library.txt
+++ b/docs/tutorial/install-php-library.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ root:
 
 .. code-block:: sh
 
-   composer require "mongodb/mongodb=^1.0.0"
+   composer require mongodb/mongodb
 
 While not recommended, you may also manually install the package via
 the source tarballs attached to the `GitHub releases