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 ### Building
 
-Iceberg is built using Gradle with Java 1.8 or Java 11.
+Iceberg is built using Gradle with Java 8, 11, or 17.
 
 * To invoke a build and run tests: `./gradlew build`
 * To skip tests: `./gradlew build -x test -x integrationTest`