RAT-274: Update to latest ANT and raise compilerVersion to JDK8
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2348e5b..e4078ea 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
   </description>
   <inceptionYear>2006</inceptionYear>
   <properties>
-    <ant.version>1.9.15</ant.version>
-    <javaVersion>1.7</javaVersion>
+    <ant.version>1.10.9</ant.version>
+    <javaVersion>1.8</javaVersion>
     <maven.compiler.source>${javaVersion}</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>${javaVersion}</maven.compiler.target>
     <!-- This is the version of Maven required to use the Rat Maven Plugin -->
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@
               be changed manually when we decide to move to a higher version of
               Java
             -->
-            <id>check-java-1.7-compat</id>
+            <id>check-java-1.8-compat</id>
             <phase>process-classes</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>check</goal>
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@
             <configuration>
               <signature>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.signature</groupId>
-                <artifactId>java17</artifactId>
+                <artifactId>java18</artifactId>
                 <version>1.0</version>
               </signature>
             </configuration>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index e3072f8..a500ee7 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
   <body>
     <release version="0.14-SNAPSHOT" date="2020-xx-xx" description="Current SNAPSHOT - to be done">
       <action issue="RAT-274" type="fix" dev="pottlinger">
-        Update to latest Apache Ant to fix CVE-2020-11979.
+        Update to latest Apache Ant 1.10.9 to fix CVE-2020-11979. Update to JDK8 as minimal version/compiler version.
       </action>
       <action issue="RAT-271" type="add" dev="pottlinger">
         Move all Creadur projects to new Jenkins infrastructure at ASF and migrate from Subversion to Gitbox/Github. Please update your repository URLs and use the new default branch master in all projects.