diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1c2beef..11d8d5f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
 Hummingbird is a Java implementation of the [Uniform Resources (UR)](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Research/blob/master/papers/bcr-2020-005-ur.md) specification.
 It is a direct port of the [URKit](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/URKit) implementation by Wolf McNally. 
 It contains both the classes to represent a UR, and a UR encoder and decoder to encode and decode to/from the QR representations.
+Hummingbird requires a minimum of Java 8. 
 
 ## Setup
 
 Hummingbird is hosted in Maven Central and can be added as a dependency with the following:
 
 ```
-implementation('com.sparrowwallet:hummingbird:1.5.4')
+implementation('com.sparrowwallet:hummingbird:1.5.5')
 ```
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 3ace00b..830ecb4 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ apply plugin: 'com.bmuschko.nexus'
 
 archivesBaseName = 'hummingbird'
 group 'com.sparrowwallet'
-version '1.5.4'
+version '1.5.5'
 
 repositories {
     mavenCentral()