[RAT-283] Unify Java 8 requirement or non-requirement

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.14
• Assignee: Philipp Ottlinger
• Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
• Created: 08/Jun/21 11:30
• Updated: 19/Jun/22 18:01
• Resolved: 09/May/22 08:45

Description

In the pom.xml I find dependencies that are very old to avoid requiring Java 1.6 or later. However I also see commons-io 2.8.0 that requires Java 1.8 or later. Make a clear decision on the minimum version of Java and upgrade or downgrade dependencies accordingly.

FYI Apache Maven requires Java 1.7 so I'd prefer not to go higher than that.

```
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<!-- Later versions require Java 1.6+ -->
<version>3.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<!-- later versions require Java 1.6+ -->
<version>3.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
<!-- later versions require Java 1.6+ -->
<version>1.19</version>
</dependency>
```