diff --git a/ecj.changes b/ecj.changes
index 34efd2e..ec17d6d 100644
--- a/ecj.changes
+++ b/ecj.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 19 07:36:41 UTC 2014 - dmacvicar@suse.de
+
+- avoid cycles in Factory with Java 8
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 18 08:29:22 UTC 2014 - dmacvicar@suse.de
 
diff --git a/ecj.spec b/ecj.spec
index c988f91..35680ed 100644
--- a/ecj.spec
+++ b/ecj.spec
@@ -47,16 +47,16 @@ Patch3:         eclipse-gcj-nodummysymbol.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  ant
 BuildRequires:  gzip
-BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.7.0
 BuildRequires:  unzip
 Provides:       eclipse-ecj = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:      eclipse-ecj < 3.4.2-4
 Conflicts:      ecj-bootstrap
 %if 0%{?suse_version} < 1320
-BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.6.0
+BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.7.0
 %else
 #!BuildIgnore:  java-1_6_0-openjdk java-1_6_0-openjdk-devel
 #!BuildIgnore:  java-1_7_0-openjdk java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel
+#!BuildIgnore:  java-1_8_0-openjdk java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel
 BuildRequires:  java-1_7_0-openjdk-bootstrap-devel
 %endif
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build