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 ## Building KickC
 
-The prerequisites for locally building KickC is Java JDK 8 and Apache Maven.
+The prerequisites for locally building KickC is Java JDK 8+ and Apache Maven 3+.
 
 *  https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase
 *  https://maven.apache.org