diff --git a/apache-commons-logging.spec b/apache-commons-logging.spec
index a498471..4134b62 100644
--- a/apache-commons-logging.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-logging.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:           apache-commons-logging
 Version:        1.2
-Release:        20%{?dist}
+Release:        21%{?dist}
 Summary:        Apache Commons Logging
 License:        ASL 2.0
 URL:            http://commons.apache.org/logging
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ sed -i 's/\r//' RELEASE-NOTES.txt LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt
 rm -rf src/test/java/org/apache/commons/logging/log4j/log4j12
 
 %build
-%mvn_build -- -Dcommons.osgi.symbolicName=org.apache.commons.logging
+%mvn_build -- -Dcommons.osgi.symbolicName=org.apache.commons.logging -Dmaven.compiler.source=1.8 -Dmaven.compiler.target=1.8
 
 # The build produces more artifacts from one pom
 %mvn_artifact %{SOURCE2} target/commons-logging-%{version}-api.jar
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ rm -rf src/test/java/org/apache/commons/logging/log4j/log4j12
 %doc PROPOSAL.html RELEASE-NOTES.txt
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jun 04 2020 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 1.2-21
+- Override javac source and target versions to fix builds with Java 11.
+
 * Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2-20
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild