diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dc3c7774..55df9011 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   <properties>
     <revision>3.0-SNAPSHOT</revision>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
     <frontend.version>0.1.0-20240704.152642</frontend.version><!-- Is parsed by the GitHub actions test that triggers the ladybug-frontend Cypress test -->
     <spring.version>6.1.7</spring.version>
     <cxf.version>4.0.4</cxf.version>