diff --git a/glassfish-jsp.changes b/glassfish-jsp.changes
index d3ac2a2..79f4ecf 100644
--- a/glassfish-jsp.changes
+++ b/glassfish-jsp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct 26 04:22:47 UTC 2023 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Build with source and target levels 8
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep 19 10:59:35 UTC 2023 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/glassfish-jsp.spec b/glassfish-jsp.spec
index a7ac2b9..0474b91 100644
--- a/glassfish-jsp.spec
+++ b/glassfish-jsp.spec
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ Group:          Documentation/HTML
 
 %pom_remove_plugin :maven-javadoc-plugin
 
+%pom_xpath_set "pom:plugin[pom:artifactId[text()='maven-compiler-plugin']]/pom:configuration/pom:source" "1.8"
+%pom_xpath_set "pom:plugin[pom:artifactId[text()='maven-compiler-plugin']]/pom:configuration/pom:target" "1.8"
+
 cp -p %{SOURCE1} .
 cp -p %{SOURCE2} .