# Java Version Requirements for Liquibase Version 3.4.2

**URL:** https://forum.liquibase.org/t/java-version-requirements-for-liquibase-version-3-4-2/3320
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/java-version-requirements-for-liquibase-version-3-4-2/3320 "2016-01-22T03:35:00Z")
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### Author: ![ChandlerKent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@ChandlerKent](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/ChandlerKent)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/java-version-requirements-for-liquibase-version-3-4-2/3320/1 "2016-01-22T03:35:00Z")

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We recently upgraded to Liquibase version 3.4.2 and are unable to run with Java version 1.6. The Liquibase website still says 3.x requires Java 1.6+:

[http://www.liquibase.org/download/](http://www.liquibase.org/download/)

Is this accurate?

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### Author: ![un1453404777487r23id](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@un1453404777487r23id](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/un1453404777487r23id)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/java-version-requirements-for-liquibase-version-3-4-2/3320/2 "2016-01-22T03:35:00Z")

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We receive this error message:

com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerDriver : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

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### Author: ![un1382561729492r88id](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c4cdca/32.png) [@un1382561729492r88id](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/un1382561729492r88id)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/java-version-requirements-for-liquibase-version-3-4-2/3320/3 "2016-01-22T03:35:00Z")

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What happens with 1.6?

Steve Donie  
Principal Software Engineer  
Datical, Inc. [http://www.datical.com/](http://www.datical.com/)

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### Author: ![nvoxland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@nvoxland](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/nvoxland)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/java-version-requirements-for-liquibase-version-3-4-2/3320/4 "2016-01-22T03:35:00Z")

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It actually looks like it is your SqlServer JDBC driver that requires java 8.&nbsp;

Nathan

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### Author: ![un1453404777487r23id](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@un1453404777487r23id](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/un1453404777487r23id)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/java-version-requirements-for-liquibase-version-3-4-2/3320/5 "2016-01-22T03:35:00Z")

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Thanks! That was the issue. Our driver claims to support Java 6, but appears it actually does not.