diff --git a/apache-commons-httpclient.changes b/apache-commons-httpclient.changes
index 26bc3ba..c74381b 100644
--- a/apache-commons-httpclient.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-httpclient.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep  7 11:49:25 UTC 2017 - fstrba@suse.com
+
+- Build with java source and target versions 1.6
+  * fixes build with jdk9
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jul  8 08:23:35 UTC 2014 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-httpclient.spec b/apache-commons-httpclient.spec
index 464278a..66931cc 100644
--- a/apache-commons-httpclient.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-httpclient.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package apache-commons-httpclient
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2014 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ sed -i 's/\r//' LICENSE.txt
 
 %build
 ant \
-  -Dant.build.javac.source=1.5 -Dant.build.javac.target=1.5 \
+  -Dant.build.javac.source=1.6 -Dant.build.javac.target=1.6 \
   -Dbuild.sysclasspath=first \
   -Djavadoc.j2sdk.link=%{_javadocdir}/java \
   -Djavadoc.logging.link=%{_javadocdir}/apache-commons-logging \