From f9c58f5574c8fa08da63b4585fd5a71c163b9841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paolo G. Giarrusso"
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:49:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify we do NOT yet support Java 9.
See #3138.
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docs/docs/contributing/getting-started.md | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/docs/contributing/getting-started.md b/docs/docs/contributing/getting-started.md
index 90af47214f12..277056082f17 100644
--- a/docs/docs/contributing/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/docs/contributing/getting-started.md
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ title: Getting Started
Requirements
------------
-Make sure that you are using Java 8 or later. The output of `java -version`
-should contain `1.8`.
+Make sure that you are using Java 8: The output of `java -version` should
+contain `1.8`. Work to support Java 9 is
+[ongoing](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/3138).
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