diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7ebc4a9..2687d41 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>com.github.thiagolocatelli</groupId>
 	<artifactId>parse4j</artifactId>
-	<version>1.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.5</version>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<name>parse4j</name>
 	<url>https://github.com/thiagolocatelli/parse4j</url>
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 		<maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
 		<maven.test.failure.ignore>false</maven.test.failure.ignore>
 		<maven.test.error.ignore>false</maven.test.error.ignore>
-		<java.version>1.6</java.version>
+		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
 	</properties>
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@
 					<version>3.1</version>
 					<configuration>
 						<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-						<source>1.6</source>
-						<target>1.6</target>
+						<source>1.8</source>
+						<target>1.8</target>
 					</configuration>
 				</plugin>
 			</plugins>
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@
 							<version>3.1</version>
 							<configuration>
 								<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-								<source>1.6</source>
-								<target>1.6</target>
+								<source>1.8</source>
+								<target>1.8</target>
 							</configuration>
 						</plugin>
 						<plugin>