diff --git a/api/pom.xml b/api/pom.xml
index 16af513f039..45919541e1a 100644
--- a/api/pom.xml
+++ b/api/pom.xml
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
     </licenses>
 
     <properties>
-        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
+        <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
 
         <!-- No Javadocs warnings as errors here => we do not want to fail because of warnings -->
         <javadoc.fail.on.warnings>false</javadoc.fail.on.warnings>
diff --git a/crd-annotations/pom.xml b/crd-annotations/pom.xml
index 5fecb102eb3..940fea51221 100644
--- a/crd-annotations/pom.xml
+++ b/crd-annotations/pom.xml
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
     <artifactId>crd-annotations</artifactId>
 
     <properties>
-        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
+        <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
 
         <!-- Points to the root directory of the Strimzi project directory and can be used for fixed location to configuration files -->
         <strimziRootDirectory>${basedir}${file.separator}..</strimziRootDirectory>
diff --git a/crd-generator/pom.xml b/crd-generator/pom.xml
index 0269cc56066..e4ff746a7ba 100644
--- a/crd-generator/pom.xml
+++ b/crd-generator/pom.xml
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@
     </licenses>
 
     <properties>
-        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
+        <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
 
         <!-- Points to the root directory of the Strimzi project directory and can be used for fixed location to configuration files -->
         <strimziRootDirectory>${basedir}${file.separator}..</strimziRootDirectory>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 44c3733dfbe..c07ce219178 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -89,8 +89,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
+        <maven.compiler.release>17</maven.compiler.release>
 
         <!-- Configures if we should fail on warnings when generating Javadocs -->
         <javadoc.fail.on.warnings>true</javadoc.fail.on.warnings>
diff --git a/test/pom.xml b/test/pom.xml
index a776604e8fb..2fbd07f535e 100644
--- a/test/pom.xml
+++ b/test/pom.xml
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
     <artifactId>test</artifactId>
 
     <properties>
-        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
+        <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
 
         <!-- Points to the root directory of the Strimzi project directory and can be used for fixed location to configuration files -->
         <strimziRootDirectory>${basedir}${file.separator}..</strimziRootDirectory>