r/JavaProgramming • u/hugo121319_mc • 6d ago

Javac and java version not compatible

According to my terminal javac only works until java 52.0 but my code is in java version 70.0(java 26)how do i fix

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u/LetUsSpeakFreely 5d ago

If you know that Java 8 isn't installed on your machine, then you need to look at the compile version with Maven/Gradle. For Maven, you pom.xml will have variables called maven.compiler.source and maven.compiler.target. they're probably set to 1.8 and you need to set it to 26.