diff --git a/apache-commons-jxpath.changes b/apache-commons-jxpath.changes
index 48bd278..d9f3cf4 100644
--- a/apache-commons-jxpath.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-jxpath.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 15 10:47:35 UTC 2018 - fstrba@suse.com
+
+- Build with source and target 8
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun May 21 07:54:40 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-jxpath.spec b/apache-commons-jxpath.spec
index 2a6c8a4..e5d7cb1 100644
--- a/apache-commons-jxpath.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-jxpath.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package apache-commons-jxpath
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Patch1:         build.xml.patch
 BuildRequires:  ant
 BuildRequires:  apache-commons-beanutils
 BuildRequires:  el_api >= 3.0
+BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-tools
 BuildRequires:  jdom
 BuildRequires:  jsp
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ BuildRequires:  junit
 BuildRequires:  servlet >= 3.0
 Requires:       apache-commons-beanutils
 Requires:       apache-commons-logging
-Requires:       java >= 1.6.0
+Requires:       java >= 1.8
 Requires:       jdom >= 1.0
 Provides:       jakarta-%{short_name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:      jakarta-%{short_name} < %{version}-%{release}
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ export CLASSPATH=$(build-classpath \
                    target/commons-jxpath.jar \
                   ):target/classes:target/test-classes
 ant -Dmaven.mode.offline=true jar \
+    -Dant.build.javac.source=8 -Dant.build.javac.target=8 \
     -lib %{_datadir}/java
 
 %install