diff --git a/tigervnc.changes b/tigervnc.changes
index fb7cb03..9c33ac2 100644
--- a/tigervnc.changes
+++ b/tigervnc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Feb 23 10:18:23 UTC 2020 - Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
+
+- raise java dependency to 1.8.0 in order to compile the java part
+  on older distributions
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb  7 11:55:20 UTC 2020 - Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/tigervnc.spec b/tigervnc.spec
index 4a4b832..5e28475 100644
--- a/tigervnc.spec
+++ b/tigervnc.spec
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  fltk-devel >= 1.3.3
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
-BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.6.0
+BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.8.0
 BuildRequires:  jpackage-utils
 BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:  libopenssl-devel