Cucumber-Maven Set up with Eclipse, Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later - eclipse

Question

I am totally new in Java , and trying to install Cucumber.
I have downloaded JDK and JRE and their versions are: jdk-12.0.1 && jre1.8.0_211 and set the environment variables.
I have also downloaded Eclipse
I am following the tutorial https://www.toolsqa.com/cucumber-video-tutorials/
I have downloaded all jar files here, C:\JavaJars\Cucumber
then I have referenced them in my pom.xml file (C:\JavaProjects\CucumberMaven)
Here is a snippet of dependencies:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>ToolsQA</groupId>
<artifactId>CucumberMaven</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>CucumberMaven</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-jvm</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>4.13-beta-3</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge.cobertura</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura</artifactId>
<version>2.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-jvm-deps</artifactId>
<version>1.0.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
<version>4.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
<version>2.12.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2-beta</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.13-beta-3</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
in command prompt -->
mvn clean install
I get the error -->
[ERROR] Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.
[ERROR] Target option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.
I am not sure how to fix it

Answer 1

maven-compiler-plugin by default will compile your project using Java 1.5 which is where m2e gets its information.
Your effective pom.xml will implicitly use the default settings in the maven-compiler-plugin pom.xml.
That's why you have to explicitly declare the maven-compiler-plugin in your project with something other than 1.5.
Add this to your pom.xml
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<!-- Default java version was 1.5, to change the default version added this plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>