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-Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.0.4 or newer and Java 7+.
+Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.3.3 or newer and Java 7+.
+The Spark build can supply a suitable Maven binary; see below.
 
 # Building with `build/mvn`