diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2ab7333d..d2a0034f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <bukkit.version>1.8.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</bukkit.version>
-    <java.target.version>1.6</java.target.version>
+    <java.target.version>1.8</java.target.version>
   </properties>
 
   <scm>