diff --git a/pentaho-gis-plugins/README.md b/pentaho-gis-plugins/README.md
index 39c4930..b88f574 100644
--- a/pentaho-gis-plugins/README.md
+++ b/pentaho-gis-plugins/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Check out the project if you have not already done so :
         git clone git://github.com/atolcd/pentaho-gis-plugins.git
         cd pentaho-gis-plugins
 
-Install Java 6+, Maven and PDI.
+Install Java 8+, Maven and PDI.
 
 To package the plugins, run the following commands from the base project directory :
 
diff --git a/pentaho-gis-plugins/pom.xml b/pentaho-gis-plugins/pom.xml
index d8e864f..1958e72 100644
--- a/pentaho-gis-plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/pentaho-gis-plugins/pom.xml
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.2</version>
         <configuration>
-          <source>1.6</source>
-          <target>1.6</target>
+          <source>1.8</source>
+          <target>1.8</target>
           <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>