diff --git a/apache-commons-lang3.changes b/apache-commons-lang3.changes
index 532133d..6b86b54 100644
--- a/apache-commons-lang3.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-lang3.changes
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Oct 22 10:24:43 UTC 2018 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
-- Build commons-lang3-3.5 using build.xml and default.properties
-  from 3.4 and modified.
+- Build commons-lang3-3.8.1 using modified build.xml and
+  default.properties from 3.4.
 - Removed patch:
   * commons-lang3-3.4-javadoc.patch
     - integrated in the build.xml
+- Use source and target version 1.7, since the code contains
+  diamond operator.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May  2 12:22:44 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
diff --git a/apache-commons-lang3.spec b/apache-commons-lang3.spec
index 7e78ae7..147ad92 100644
--- a/apache-commons-lang3.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-lang3.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %define base_name lang3
 %define short_name commons-%{base_name}
 Name:           apache-commons-lang3
-Version:        3.5
+Version:        3.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Apache Commons Lang Package
 License:        Apache-2.0
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Source2:        default.properties
 BuildRequires:  ant
 BuildRequires:  ant-junit
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
-BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.6
+BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.7
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-tools
 BuildRequires:  junit
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ sed -i 's/\r//' *.txt
 export OPT_JAR_LIST=`cat %{_sysconfdir}/ant.d/junit`
 export CLASSPATH=
 ant \
-    -Dcompile.source=1.6 -Dcompile.target=1.6 \
+    -Dcompile.source=1.7 -Dcompile.target=1.7 \
     -Dfinal.name=%{short_name} \
      jar javadoc
 
diff --git a/commons-lang3-3.5-src.tar.gz b/commons-lang3-3.5-src.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 34b91db..0000000
--- a/commons-lang3-3.5-src.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:759bbde7b5f5ad31fd0afa8ac3148f8f98b8a32372e7ed8b68c61f5b07a37cb1
-size 829973
diff --git a/commons-lang3-3.8.1-src.tar.gz b/commons-lang3-3.8.1-src.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7c3a83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/commons-lang3-3.8.1-src.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:9682e67375b6f03700e5bbaa2acceac60bc2f9049e11cafae3ce411ccaf633fb
+size 965924
diff --git a/default.properties b/default.properties
index ad69f06..1814af2 100644
--- a/default.properties
+++ b/default.properties
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ component.package = org.apache.commons.lang3
 component.title = Core Language Utilities
 
 # The current version number of this component
-component.version = 3.5
+component.version = 3.8.1
 
 # The name that is used to create the jar file
 final.name = ${component.name}-${component.version}
@@ -73,12 +73,12 @@ compile.optimize = true
 # In particular, if you use JDK 1.4+ the generated classes will not be usable
 # for a 1.1 Java VM unless you explicitly set this attribute to the value 1.1
 # (which is the default value for JDK 1.1 to 1.3).
-compile.target = 1.6
+compile.target = 1.7
 
 # Specifies the source version for the Java compiler.
 # Corresponds to the source attribute for the ant javac task.
 # Valid values are 1.3, 1.4, 1.5.
-compile.source = 1.6
+compile.source = 1.7
 
 # Specifies the source encoding.
 compile.encoding = ISO-8859-1