Established TCP socket on 45834 <===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>channel started Executing Maven: -B -f /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/VersionCITest/pom.xml install [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building VersionCITest 1.0 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.3:resources (default-resources) @ VersionCITest --- [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources. [INFO] Copying 1 resource [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile (default-compile) @ VersionCITest --- [INFO] Compiling 1 source file to /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/VersionCITest/target/classes [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 3.166s [INFO] Finished at: Thu Feb 11 12:45:47 CET 2016 [INFO] Final Memory: 11M/156M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Waiting for Jenkins to finish collecting data[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile (default-compile) on project VersionCITest: Compilation failure [ERROR] Failure executing javac, but could not parse the error: [ERROR] javac: invalid target release: 1.8 [ERROR] Usage: javac <options> <source files> [ERROR] use -help for a list of possible options [ERROR] -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException