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Expand Up @@ -8,28 +8,28 @@ Example for Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.reactivex.rxjava4</groupId>
<artifactId>rxjava</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0</version>
<version>x.y.z</version>
</dependency>
```
and for Ivy:

```xml
<dependency org="io.reactivex.rxjava4" name="rxjava" rev="4.0.0" />
<dependency org="io.reactivex.rxjava4" name="rxjava" rev="x.y.z" />
```

and for SBT:

```scala
libraryDependencies += "io.reactivex" %% "rxscala" % "0.26.5"

libraryDependencies += "io.reactivex.rxjava4" % "rxjava" % "4.0.0"
libraryDependencies += "io.reactivex.rxjava4" % "rxjava" % "x.y.z"
```

and for Gradle:
```groovy
implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava4:rxjava:4.0.0'
implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava4:rxjava:x.y.z'
```

Replace `x.y.z` with a released version from Maven Central.

If you need to download the jars instead of using a build system, create a Maven `pom` file like this with the desired version:

```xml
Expand All @@ -38,17 +38,14 @@ If you need to download the jars instead of using a build system, create a Maven
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>io.reactivex.rxjava4</groupId>
<artifactId>rxjava</artifactId>
<version>3.0.4</version>
<name>RxJava</name>
<description>Reactive Extensions for Java</description>
<url>https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava</url>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>download-rxjava</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.reactivex.rxjava4</groupId>
<artifactId>rxjava</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0</version>
<version>x.y.z</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Expand All @@ -62,23 +59,23 @@ $ mvn -f download-rxjava-pom.xml dependency:copy-dependencies

That command downloads `rxjava-*.jar` and its dependencies into `./target/dependency/`.

You need Java 6 or later.
You need Java 26 or later.

### Snapshots

Snapshots after May 1st, 2021 are available via https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/io/reactivex/rxjava4/rxjava/
Snapshots after May 19th, 2025 are available via https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/io/reactivex/rxjava4/rxjava/

```groovy
repositories {
maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots' }
maven { url 'https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots' }
}

dependencies {
implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava4:rxjava:4.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
}
```

Javadoc snapshots are available at http://reactivex.io/RxJava/4.x/javadoc/snapshot
Javadoc snapshots are available at https://reactivex.io/RxJava/4.x/javadoc/snapshot


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