diff --git a/turbine-amqp/pom.xml b/turbine-amqp/pom.xml
index 184b95f..522fd01 100644
--- a/turbine-amqp/pom.xml
+++ b/turbine-amqp/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<start-class>demo.DemoApplication</start-class>
-		<java.version>1.7</java.version>
+		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
 		<spring-cloud.version>Edgware.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</spring-cloud.version>
 	</properties>