diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/building-base.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/building-base.adoc
index 3088639b..6656528c 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/building-base.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/building-base.adoc
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ If you don't have an IDE preference we would recommend that you use
 http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts[Spring Tools Suite] or
 http://eclipse.org[Eclipse] when working with the code. We use the
 http://eclipse.org/m2e/[m2eclipe] eclipse plugin for maven support. Other IDEs and tools
-should also work without issue.
+should also work without issue as long as they use Maven 3.3.3 or better.
 
 ==== Importing into eclipse with m2eclipse
 We recommend the http://eclipse.org/m2e/[m2eclipe] eclipse plugin when working with