How to avoid IntelliJ to reset language level?

Question

I am having troubles with this which have been answered dusin of times on this site.

My take on the problem is a bit different. I have a project which builds fine using maven 3.5.x and java release 10 (configured in the maven-compiler-plugin) When looking in IntelliJ's project structure, all modules have language level 10 (but the projects settings is language level 6 and the chosen sdk in the project structure is 1.8...

However, even if I change the sdk to java 10 and the projects language level to 10, the error pasted below still occurs... ????

My IntelliJ version: IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.5

To reproduce this error:

• Check out from version control (GIT)

• GitHub: https://github.com/jactor-rises/jactor-rises.git

  Try to build it within IntelliJ:

Information:java: Errors occurred while compiling module 'jactor-commons' Information:javac 10.0.1 was used to compile java sources Information:29/10/2018, 21:31 - Compilation completed with 1 error and 0 warnings in 4 s 777 ms Error:java: release version 5 not supported

Answer 1

You can update the Java Compiler version of your module to be executed to use Java version 10 with the following settings :

Build, Execution, Deployment => Compiler => Java Compiler => Update Target Bytecode version

In the image above you can notice that the modules guice and hbase are defaulting to use Java version 5 while I've updated the others to use Java version 11 which is when compiling and executing them with JDK 11 works just fine.

Answer 2

I just update the pom.xml and it works for me.

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.8.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <source>1.11</source>
        <target>1.11</target>
        <release>11</release>
    </configuration>
</plugin>