This is a minor release update to Spatial4j. Spatial4j is in a maintenance mode, receiving infrequent minor changes. This release has no changes to dependencies except that some versions were updated. The minimum Java version is now 1.8.
from CHANGES.md
#197: Require Java 8, AKA v1.8. (David Smiley)
#194: Circles that cross a dateline can now be converted to a JTS Geometry. Previous...