diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 48214ac2..ad6d9739 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -35,16 +35,16 @@
     <accumulo.version>4.0.0-SNAPSHOT</accumulo.version>
     <!-- prevent introduction of new compiler warnings -->
     <maven.compiler.failOnWarning>true</maven.compiler.failOnWarning>
-    <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
-    <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
-    <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.release>17</maven.compiler.release>
+    <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
     <maven.javadoc.failOnWarnings>true</maven.javadoc.failOnWarnings>
     <maven.site.deploy.skip>true</maven.site.deploy.skip>
     <maven.site.skip>true</maven.site.skip>
     <!-- versions-maven-plugin ignore patterns for snapshots, alpha, beta, milestones, and release candidates -->
     <maven.version.ignore>.+-SNAPSHOT,(?i).*(alpha|beta)[0-9.-]*,(?i).*[.-](m|rc)[0-9]+</maven.version.ignore>
-    <minimalJavaBuildVersion>11</minimalJavaBuildVersion>
-    <minimalMavenBuildVersion>3.6.0</minimalMavenBuildVersion>
+    <minimalJavaBuildVersion>17</minimalJavaBuildVersion>
+    <minimalMavenBuildVersion>3.9</minimalMavenBuildVersion>
     <!-- timestamp for reproducible outputs, updated on release by the release plugin -->
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2021-12-15T00:00:00Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
   </properties>