diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ec3679dc218acba451f15bde449134d70d40648b..19fbc820b53480d42446ae45793b74687d4e2444 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
+        <java.version>11</java.version>
 
         <jlibs.version>2.0.6</jlibs.version>
         <versionizer.version>1.2.1</versionizer.version>
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.2.2</version>
+                <version>3.3.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <webappDirectory>${basedir}/src/main</webappDirectory>
                     <outputDirectory>${project.outputDirectory}</outputDirectory>
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.akathist.maven.plugins.launch4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>launch4j-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.7.21</version>
+                <version>1.7.25</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>l4j-clui</id>
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
                             <jre>
                                 <bundledJre64Bit>false</bundledJre64Bit>
                                 <bundledJreAsFallback>false</bundledJreAsFallback>
-                                <minVersion>1.8.0</minVersion>
+                                <minVersion>11</minVersion>
                                 <jdkPreference>preferJre</jdkPreference>
                                 <runtimeBits>64/32</runtimeBits>
                             </jre>
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.12</version>
+                <version>2.22.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <junitArtifactName>junit:junit</junitArtifactName>
                     <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.10</version>
+                <version>1.12</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>attach-artifacts</id>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 64a11afef8a8cb65e775ea8fa641f011ad2a3a58..327b2e92afff6c05d55c80a75febf44d905c91fd 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ spring.jpa.properties.jadira.usertype.autoRegisterUserTypes = true
 spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size=100MB
 spring.servlet.multipart.max-request-size=100MB
 
+server.ssl.enabled-protocols=TLSv1.2
+
 logging.level.root=INFO
 #logging.level.org.springframework=ERROR
 logging.level.de.deadlocker8=DEBUG