RAT-307: Do not build with openJDK8 as it is not supported on Travis anymore with focal
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b455a74..1b56d79 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@
 
 jobs:
     include:
-        - name: "Java 8"
-          jdk: openjdk8
-          script: mvn -e -B -V clean package site
-
         - name: "Java 16"
           jdk: openjdk16
           script: mvn -e -B -V clean package site
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 0517b3e..b67357e 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@
       <action issue="RAT-305" type="fix" dev="pottlinger" due-to="dependabot">
         TODO: collect all dependabot updates for release 0.15.
       </action>
+      <action issue="RAT-307" type="fix" dev="pottlinger" due-to="dependabot">
+        Update to focal (Ubuntu 20.04) on Travis to circumvent build errors and be able to use more modern JDK versions. Deprecate openJDK8 build with focal as it is not supported on Travis.
+      </action>
     </release>
 
     <release version="0.14" date="2022-05-28" description="This release contains dependency updates, bugfixes and many improvements apart from infrastructure updates at ASF.">