diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4af18e34..01984cda 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ CSV files of various types.
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
       <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
-      <version>1.4.180</version>
+      <!-- 1.3.172 requires Java 1.6 -->
+      <version>1.3.168</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
@@ -119,8 +120,8 @@ CSV files of various types.
     <commons.componentid>csv</commons.componentid>
     <commons.jira.id>CSV</commons.jira.id>
     <commons.jira.pid>12313222</commons.jira.pid>
-    <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
-    <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
     <!-- Ensure copies work OK (can be removed later when this is in parent POM) -->
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 26ad32f3..7c7d576f 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
 
-    <release version="1.0" date="TBD" description="First release">    
+    <release version="1.0" date="TBD" description="First release">
+      <action issue="CSV-125" type="fix" dev="britter">No longer works with Java 6</action>
       <action issue="CSV-122" type="fix" dev="britter" due-to="Mike Lewis">NullPointerException when empty header string and and null string of ""</action>
       <action issue="CSV-117" type="update" dev="sebb">Validate format parameters in constructor</action>
       <action issue="CSV-121" type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="Sebastian Hardt">IllegalArgumentException thrown when the header contains duplicate names when the column names are empty.</action>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index f5c9cf4c..77502d91 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ limitations under the License.
     and various <a href="project-reports.html">project reports</a> are provided.
   </p>
   <p>
-    The JavaDoc API documents for the <a href="javadocs/api-1.0/index.html">current stable release 1.0</a> [Java 7.0+] can be viewed in a web browser.
+    The JavaDoc API documents for the <a href="javadocs/api-1.0/index.html">current stable release 1.0</a> [Java 6.0+] can be viewed in a web browser.
   </p>
   <p>
     The <a href="source-repository.html">subversion repository</a> can be
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/user-guide.xml b/src/site/xdoc/user-guide.xml
index 58e488ab..baf655a2 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/user-guide.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/user-guide.xml
@@ -39,14 +39,16 @@ for (CSVRecord record : records) {
     class from <a href="https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/">Apache Commons IO</a> for example: 
   </p>
   <source>final URL url = ...;
-try (
-    final Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(new BOMInputStream(url.openStream()), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-    final CSVParser parser = new CSVParser(reader, CSVFormat.EXCEL.withHeader());
-) {
+final Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(new BOMInputStream(url.openStream()), "UTF-8");
+final CSVParser parser = new CSVParser(reader, CSVFormat.EXCEL.withHeader());
+try {
     for (final CSVRecord record : parser) {
         final String string = record.get("SomeColumn");
         ...
     }
+} finally {
+    parser.close();
+    reader.close();
 }</source>
 </section>
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