Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator Commit: e169f468cd9e8f434d4265bbdb118a87354ea1dd https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/e169f468cd9e8f434... Author: Gunnar Morling <gunnar.morling(a)googlemail.com&gt; Date: 2017-01-19 (Thu, 19 Jan 2017) Changed paths: M annotation-processor/pom.xml M cdi/pom.xml M engine/pom.xml M engine/src/main/java/org/hibernate/validator/internal/engine/cascading/ObservableValueValueExtractor.java R engine/src/main/java/org/hibernate/validator/internal/util/IgnoreJava8Requirement.java M pom.xml Log Message: ----------- HV-1212 Removing AnimalSniffer set-up It's not needed anymore as we are requiring Java 8 at runtime, too. In the future, where we may require Java 9 for building but still want to keep runtime compatibility with Java 8, the signatures built into the JDK itself (added in Java 9) can be used.