diff --git a/xml-commons-apis.spec b/xml-commons-apis.spec
index b65a772..72dd709 100644
--- a/xml-commons-apis.spec
+++ b/xml-commons-apis.spec
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ sed -i '/distributionManagement/,/\/distributionManagement/ {d}' *.pom
 %mvn_alias :xml-apis-ext xerces:dom3-xml-apis
 
 %build
-ant -Dant.build.javac.source=1.7 -Dant.build.javac.target=1.7 jar javadoc
+%ant -Dant.build.javac.source=1.8 -Dant.build.javac.target=1.8 jar javadoc
 
 # inject OSGi manifests
 jar ufm build/xml-apis.jar %{SOURCE1}
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ rm -rf build/docs/javadoc
 %files javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Aug 05 2024 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@redhat.com> - 1.4.01-45
+- Switch Java compiler source/target to 1.8
+- Resolves: RHEL-52706
+
 * Thu Aug 01 2024 Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com> - 1.4.01-45
 - Bump release for Aug 2024 java mass rebuild