From 153a6cabda08a400ab9f292f499cbe5d595b519b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:09:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] minimal version is 8

---
 slf4j-log4j12/src/main/java/org/slf4j/log4j12/VersionUtil.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/slf4j-log4j12/src/main/java/org/slf4j/log4j12/VersionUtil.java b/slf4j-log4j12/src/main/java/org/slf4j/log4j12/VersionUtil.java
index 1ed8ff6e..17b276e0 100755
--- a/slf4j-log4j12/src/main/java/org/slf4j/log4j12/VersionUtil.java
+++ b/slf4j-log4j12/src/main/java/org/slf4j/log4j12/VersionUtil.java
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import org.slf4j.helpers.Util;
 
 public class VersionUtil {
-    static final int MINIMAL_VERSION = 5;
+    // code was compiled under Java 8 or later
+    static final int MINIMAL_VERSION = 8;
 
     static public int getJavaMajorVersion() {
         String javaVersionString = Util.safeGetSystemProperty("java.version");