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Tim Allison commented on TIKA-2679:
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No. Sorry. Among other reasons, some of our dependencies require 1.8 now,
including Apache POI.
> Bump 1.x branch to Java 1.8
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> Key: TIKA-2679
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2679
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Tim Allison
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.19
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> As we've been warning. We can revert this if anyone objects.
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