Error “Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 6 or later” on Maven compile

Question

I am getting the following error or $ mvn compile:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on         


        

Answer 1

What helped me was these lines in pom.xml file

     1.8
     1.8