diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 36690dcbe0b2d5020950ef0ec2e8854a440505de..9a84f6444a62f88e83849e561765676848163e1b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>pom-icy</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.bioimageanalysis.icy</groupId>
-        <version>1.0.4</version>
+        <version>1.0.6</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>rsyntaxtextarea</artifactId>
@@ -20,14 +20,6 @@
         RSyntaxTextArea library for Icy: provides a TextArea component with syntax highlight for different languages.
     </description>
 
-    <properties>
-        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <jdk.version>1.8</jdk.version>
-
-        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-    </properties>
-
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fifesoft</groupId>