diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5ff092133..4b6489b8d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -625,7 +625,8 @@
     <checkstyle.configdir>src/site/resources/checkstyle</checkstyle.configdir>
 
     <japicmp.skip>false</japicmp.skip>
-
+    <!-- 0.6.0 requires Java 11 -->
+    <commons.spdx.version>0.5.5</commons.spdx.version>
     <!-- JMH Benchmark related properties, version, target compiler and name of the benchmarking uber jar. -->
     <jmh.version>1.36</jmh.version>
     <uberjar.name>benchmarks</uberjar.name>