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 = Spring Security
 
-Spring Security provides security services for the http://docs.spring.io[Spring IO Platform]. Spring Security 3.1 requires Spring 3.0.3 as
-a minimum and also requires Java 5.
+Spring Security provides security services for the http://docs.spring.io[Spring IO Platform]. Spring Security 5.0 requires Spring 5.0 as
+a minimum and also requires Java 8.
 
 For a detailed list of features and access to the latest release, please visit http://spring.io/projects[Spring projects].