diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 517726514..019607895 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     <title>Release Notes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.10.0" date="YYYY-MM-DD" description="This is a maintenance release.">
+    <release version="1.10.0" date="YYYY-MM-DD" description="This is a maintenance release, requires Java 8.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action type="fix" issue="BEANUTILS-541" dev="ggregory" due-to="Sergey Chernov">FluentPropertyBeanIntrospector caches corrupted writeMethod (1.x backport) #69.</action>
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Replace internal use of Locale.ENGLISH with Locale.ROOT.</action>
