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 ## Apache Maven
 
 The Maven-based build is the build of reference for Apache Spark.
-Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.3.9 or newer and Java 8+.
+Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.5.4 and Java 8.
 Note that support for Java 7 was removed as of Spark 2.2.0.
 
 ### Setting up Maven's Memory Usage