Updated copyright
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 (c) 2007-2014 University of Manchester
 
-(c) 2014-2015 Apache Software Foundation
+(c) 2014-2018 Apache Software Foundation
 
 This product includes software developed at The
 [Apache Software Foundation](http://www.apache.org/).
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 ## Prerequisites
 
-* Java 1.7 or newer (tested with OpenJDK 1.8)
+* Java 1.8 or newer (tested with OpenJDK 1.8)
 * [Apache Maven](https://maven.apache.org/download.html) 3.2.5 or newer (older
   versions probably also work)