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		Igglyboo on Jan 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migr... The IDE itself uses Java 8. You can still work on projects that utilize previous versions of Java.

fforw on Jan 4, 2016 [–]

Just like you could have Java 8 projects before this change.

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