diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a5f9b4c..cda9d14 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+        <maven.compiler.target>9</maven.compiler.target>
     </properties>
 
     <scm>