diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 22a81ec29..1b9b97f2c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -466,8 +466,8 @@
     <commons.jira.id>MATH</commons.jira.id>
     <commons.jira.pid>12310485</commons.jira.pid>
     <commons.encoding>UTF-8</commons.encoding>
-    <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
-    <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
     <math.pmd.version>3.8</math.pmd.version>
     <math.findbugs.version>3.0.4</math.findbugs.version>
     <math.checkstyle.version>2.17</math.checkstyle.version>