diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 60d2d8827..0d6e45b72 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
-  <version>4.2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>4.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>Apache Commons Collections</name>
 
   <inceptionYear>2001</inceptionYear>
@@ -472,8 +472,8 @@
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-    <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
-    <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
 
     <!--
        This is also used to generate download_xxx file name.
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index f6a6d39c6..fa8a59a35 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
     <title>Commons Collections Changes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
-  <release version="4.2.1" date="2018-MM-DD" description="Bug fixes, and small changes.">
+  <release version="4.3" date="2018-MM-DD" description="Bug fixes, and small changes.">
+    <action issue="COLLECTIONS-688" dev="ggregory" type="update">
+      Update platform requirement from Java 7 to 8.
+    </action>
   </release>
   <release version="4.2" date="2018-07-11" description="Update from Java 6 to Java 7, bug fixes, and small changes.">
     <action issue="COLLECTIONS-681" dev="kinow" type="add" due-to="Stephan Fuhrmann">
