Messaging java 1.6 compatibility
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
index 7763f2e..3d7495e 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 The Apache Commons FileUpload component provides a simple yet flexible means of
 adding support for multipart file upload functionality to servlets and web
-applications. Version 1.3 onwards requires Java 5 or later.
+applications. Version 1.3 onwards requires Java 6 or later.
 
 No client code changes are required to migrate from version 1.3.0 to 1.3.1.
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e3c6c45..17384f8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@
   </distributionManagement>
 
   <properties>
-    <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
-    <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
     <commons.componentid>fileupload</commons.componentid>
     <commons.module.name>org.apache.commons.fileupload</commons.module.name>
     <commons.release.desc>(requires Java ${maven.compiler.target} or later)</commons.release.desc>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index d662995..4522eee 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
   </properties>
 
   <body>
-    <release version="1.4" date="2018-12-22" description="1.4 Release">
+    <release version="1.4" date="2018-12-23" description="1.4 Release">
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-292" dev="chtompki" type="update">Don't create un-needed resources in FileUploadBase.java</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-282" dev="chtompki" type="update">Upversion complier.source, compiler.target to 1.6</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-252" dev="tn" type="fix">DiskFileItem#write() could lose original IO exception</action>
diff --git a/src/changes/release-notes.vm b/src/changes/release-notes.vm
index ddcbff7..32157c4 100644
--- a/src/changes/release-notes.vm
+++ b/src/changes/release-notes.vm
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 The Apache Commons FileUpload component provides a simple yet flexible means of
 adding support for multipart file upload functionality to servlets and web
-applications. Version 1.3 onwards requires Java 5 or later.
+applications. Version 1.3 onwards requires Java 6 or later.
 
 No client code changes are required to migrate from version 1.3.0 to 1.3.1.
 
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/download_fileupload.xml b/src/site/xdoc/download_fileupload.xml
index 2ba6855..05f9b69 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/download_fileupload.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/download_fileupload.xml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
       </p>
     </subsection>
     </section>
-    <section name="Apache Commons FileUpload 1.4 (requires Java 1.7 or later)">
+    <section name="Apache Commons FileUpload 1.4 (requires Java 1.6 or later)">
       <subsection name="Binaries">
         <table>
           <tr>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index 5827187..2b17343 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 
     <section name="Downloading">
       <subsection name="Full Releases">
-        <p><strong>FileUpload 1.4</strong> - 22 December 2018</p>
+        <p><strong>FileUpload 1.4</strong> - 23 December 2018</p>
         <ul>
           <li>Download the binary and source distributions from a mirror site
             <a href="http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/download_fileupload.cgi">here</a>