Given that JDK 8 is now the official bootstrap JDK for JDK 9 building, I think we can bump the -source and -target properties up to 8 (from 7)
bug ID : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042932 webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8042932/webrev/ Thanks to Erik for identifying the offending file. regards, Sean.