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I'm sure the "major.minor" thing has come up before, but I didn't find it in a quick search. The list of robots I see this on includes: alpha.RainingFire ancientpyro.megas.kbot.KBot bots.UberBot bumblebee.Bumblebee cb.DeepThought cb.droid.Polyphem cb.Femto cb.mega.Enigma cb.micro.Haiduc cb.nano.Chasseur cb.Sabertooth cb.test.Provocateur com.timothyveletta.FuzzyBot daemons.DizzyA dhn.Immortal fromHell.C4H10O kb.PingPong kenran.InfiniteObscurity Lo_Ian.Gandalf_V4 mae.Mae1 mb.Beast mb.Monte qualidafial.MajorDick rc.RCBot romz.robot.circular.WildRabbit romz.robot.guessfactor.TeasingFox romz.robot.Test sfergus.Terminator stranger.nano.TestBot suh.micro.MirrorPM suh.micro.WallPM suh.nano.AntiGravityL suh.nano.CornerRL suh.nano.MyFirstAdvancedRobot suh.nano.RandomPM tkt.RedShift zignd.ZigIndexOutOfRange

Yikes! We're only supposed to require Java 6. And in the past I've removed bots from the rumble for requiring Java 7 and put a note on the participants page for those bots. But with that many, I wonder if it's time for us to just say to use Java 7?

At this point, I'd note that Java 6 is no longer being maintained for security fixes, and has outstanding exploits against it so... better be upgrading to Java 7 for other reasons.