diff --git a/bin/hbase b/bin/hbase
index 6430dc5..29945d7 100755
--- a/bin/hbase
+++ b/bin/hbase
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ if [ "$COMMAND" = "shell" ] ; then
HBASE_OPTS="$HBASE_OPTS -Dhbase.ruby.sources=$HBASE_HOME/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby"
fi
HBASE_OPTS="$HBASE_OPTS $HBASE_SHELL_OPTS"
- CLASS="org.jruby.Main -X+O ${JRUBY_OPTS} ${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hirb.rb"
+ CLASS="org.jruby.Main --1.8 -X+O ${JRUBY_OPTS} ${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hirb.rb"
elif [ "$COMMAND" = "hbck" ] ; then
CLASS='org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.HBaseFsck'
# TODO remove old 'hlog' version
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 814502b..1fe76fb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@
6.1.14
1.9
2.6.0
- 1.6.8
+ 1.7.20
4.11
1.3
3.1.0-incubating