[FIXED] Maven compiler plugin Unsupported class file major version 60

Issue

I am updating a Spigot (Minecraft) plugin and the newest version of Spigot requires Java 16. In my pom I changed the maven compiler plugin target to 16 and the source is still 1.8. Now I am getting the following errors:

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-shade-plugin:3.2.4:shade (default) on project Plugin: Error creating shaded jar: Problem shading JAR C:\Users\Trent\workspace\Stocks\Plugin\target\Plugin-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar entry com/tchristofferson/stocks/commands/StockbrokerCommand.class: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 60

pom:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

4.0.0

<groupId>com.tchristofferson</groupId>
<artifactId>Stocks</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<modules>
    <module>API</module>
    <module>Plugin</module>
</modules>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>16</target>
                <release>16</release>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

<distributionManagement>
    <snapshotRepository>
        <id>ossrh</id>
        <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
    </snapshotRepository>
    <repository>
        <id>ossrh</id>
        <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
    </repository>
</distributionManagement>

Solution

@wemu was correct that the maven shade plugin doesn't yet support Java 16. To solve the issue I had to use a snapshot version of the maven shade plugin (3.3.0-SNAPSHOT) since 3.2.4 doesn't support Java 16 yet.

Answered By - tchristofferson