9. System Requirements

By default, Spring Boot 1.4.1.BUILD-SNAPSHOT requires Java 7 and Spring Framework 4.3.3.RELEASE or above. You can use Spring Boot with Java 6 with some additional configuration. See Section 80.11, “How to use Java 6” for more details. Explicit build support is provided for Maven (3.2+) and Gradle (1.12 or 2.x). Gradle 3 is not supported.

	Tip
Although you can use Spring Boot with Java 6 or 7, we generally recommend Java 8 if at all possible.