diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
index 2913cb0bd..5c5d6663c 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ IMPROVEMENTS IN 3.0
     [LANG-668] Change ObjectUtils min() & max() functions to use varargs rather than just two parameters
     [LANG-681] Push down WordUtils to "text" sub-package.
     [LANG-711] Add includeantruntime=false to javac targets to quell warnings in ant 1.8.1 and better (and modest performance gain).
-    [LANG-713] Increase test coverage of FieldUtils read methods and tweak javadoc
+    [LANG-713] Increase test coverage of FieldUtils read methods and tweak javadoc.
+    [LANG-718] build.xml Java 1.5+ updates.
 
 BUG FIXES IN 3.0
 ================
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index c7f2e83de..109405f3b 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@
     <property file="${user.home}/build.properties"/>
     <property file="${basedir}/build.properties"/>
     <property file="${basedir}/default.properties"/>
-    <!-- The Sun Javadoc for versions prior to 1.3 are off-line. -->
-    <property name="jdk.javadoc" value="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/"/>
+    <property name="jdk.javadoc" value="http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/"/>
 
     <!-- ========== Construct compile classpath =============================== -->
     <path id="compile.classpath">
@@ -54,7 +53,6 @@
         <filter token="compile.source" value="${compile.source}"/>
         <filter token="compile.target" value="${compile.target}"/>
         <mkdir dir="${build.home}"/>
-        <available property="jdk.1.5.present" classname="java.lang.StringBuilder"/>
     </target>
 
     <!-- ========== Compile Targets ========================================= -->
diff --git a/src/site/changes/changes.xml b/src/site/changes/changes.xml
index f261b1395..67b92754f 100644
--- a/src/site/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/site/changes/changes.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
 
-  <release version="3.0" date="Unreleased" description="Backwards incompatible update of Commons Lang to Java 5">
+  <release version="3.0" date="Unreleased" description="Backwards incompatible update of Commons Lang to Java 5">  
+    <action type="update" issue="LANG-718">build.xml Java 1.5+ updates.</action>
     <action type="fix" issue="LANG-716">swapCase and *capitalize speedups.</action>
     <action type="fix" issue="LANG-715">CharSetUtils.squeeze() speedup.</action>
     <action type="fix" issue="LANG-714">StringUtils doc/comment spelling fixes.</action>
