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 Welcome to the DBCP component of the Apache Commons
 project (http://commons.apache.org).
 
-DBCP version 2 requires JDK 1.7.
+DBCP version 2.5.0 requires JDK 1.8.
 
 DBCP can be built using either Maven or Ant. When building using Ant,
 Locations of dependent jars for the Ant build need to be specified in