If you want to make sure that newly created projects or imported projects in Eclipse use another default java version than Java 1.5, you can change the configuration in the maven-compiler-plugin.
In the following lines:
<source implementation="java.lang.String" default-value="1.5">${maven.compiler.source}</source>
<target implementation="java.lang.String" default-value="1.5">${maven.compiler.target}</target>
change the default-value to 1.6 or 1.8 or whatever you like.
From now on all new Maven projects use the java version you specified.
Information is from the following blog post: https://sandocean.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/directly-generating-maven-projects-in-eclipse-with-java-version-newer-than-1-5/