JDK-13 Unsupported class file major version for surefire plugin

Question

I'm trying to create Java module project with Java-13 and Maven. My pom.xml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>wtf.g4s8</groupId>
  <artifactId>oot</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <properties>
    <junit-platform.version>5.3.1</junit-platform.version>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <jdk.version>13</jdk.version>
  </properties>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
      <artifactId>hamcrest</artifactId>
      <version>2.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
      <version>${junit-platform.version}</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
      <version>${junit-platform.version}</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <target>${jdk.version}</target>
          <source>${jdk.version}</source>
          <release>${jdk.version}</release>
          <useIncrementalCompilation>false</useIncrementalCompilation>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

versions:

$ mvn help:system | grep -i jdk
sun.boot.library.path=/opt/jdk-13.0.1/lib
jdk.debug=release
java.home=/opt/jdk-13.0.1
java.runtime.name=OpenJDK Runtime Environment
java.vm.name=OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
JDK_HOME=/opt/jdk-13.0.1
JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk-13.0.1
JAVAC=/opt/jdk-13.0.1/bin/javac

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.6.1 (d66c9c0b3152b2e69ee9bac180bb8fcc8e6af555; 2019-04-04T22:00:29+03:00)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven-bin-3.6
Java version: 13.0.1, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /opt/jdk-13.0.1
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "5.3.2-gentoo", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

It's working fine if I skip test phase with mvn clean package -DskipTests:

BUILD SUCCESS

But when I'm trying to test the project with mvn clean test, I'm getting error (full log with -e is here: https://gist.github.com/g4s8/a08e88143b7b5ceec0e534a34b7ab734):

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M3:test (default-test) on project oot: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M3:test failed: Unsupported class file major version 57 -> [Help 1]

It seems surefire plugin can't work with 13 JDK, but plugin docs says "Requirements: Maven 3.x and JDK 1.7 or higher" (JDK 13 is higher than JDK 1.7).

So did I configure something wrong in my pom.xml or surefire plugin is not working with 13 JDK?

Example project to reproduce: https://github.com/g4s8/so58710751

Answer 1

Currently the issue in Maven Surefire plugin is that it's using an older version of org.ow2.asm:asm which causes the issue. I've created an issue on maven-surefire-plugin. The issue can be temporarily circumvented by simply adding a new version of org.ow2.asm:asm to the maven-surefire-plugin:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
        <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
        <version>7.2</version>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </plugin>
</plugins>

Update Do not use this fix for version 3.0.0-M4 and above.

Answer 2

Do NOT use any hacks with ASM library. This type of the issue was fixed once for all in the principle using Java API and we do not need to use ASM. This was the fix with Surefire and Failsafe made in the version 3.0.0-M4. It is already available in Maven Central, enjoy!