diff --git a/apache-commons-codec.changes b/apache-commons-codec.changes
index f8034ab..87a82c1 100644
--- a/apache-commons-codec.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-codec.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep  7 11:59:41 UTC 2017 - fstrba@suse.com
+
+- Build with java source and target versions 1.6
+  * fixes build with jdk9
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri May 19 08:43:40 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-codec.spec b/apache-commons-codec.spec
index be3fb8f..49e382c 100644
--- a/apache-commons-codec.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-codec.spec
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ export MAVEN_OPTS="-Dmaven2.jpp.mode=true -Dmaven2.jpp.depmap.file=%{SOURCE2} -D
 
 export CLASSPATH=$(build-classpath junit)
 ant -Dbuild.sysclasspath=first \
-  -Dant.build.javac.source=1.5 -Dant.build.javac.target=1.5 \
+  -Dant.build.javac.source=1.6 -Dant.build.javac.target=1.6 \
   -Dconf.home=src/conf \
   -Dbuild.home=build \
   -Dsource.home=src/main/java \