builds with JDK8 began failing animal-sniffer with the error:

                   Failed to check signatures: Bad class file .../CollectionFuture$ListFuture.class

                   One way of dealing with that would be to disable
                   animal-sniffer. And that would be fine for our -jre builds:
                   If we're building with JDK8, then clearly we're sticking to

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