diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0da07ffe..dadbb6a7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
-    <!-- 01-Dec-2024, tatu: [annotations#267] Retain Java 8 baseline
-	   for annotations (up from Jackson 2.x Java 1.6 baselin)
+    <!-- 11-Jan-2025, tatu: [annotations#272] JDK 17 for Jackson 3.x
+          (up from Jackson 2.x Java 1.6 baseline for annotations)
       -->
-    <javac.src.version>1.8</javac.src.version>
-    <javac.target.version>1.8</javac.target.version>
+    <javac.src.version>17</javac.src.version>
+    <javac.target.version>17</javac.target.version>
     
     <osgi.export>com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.*;version=${project.version}</osgi.export>
 
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION b/release-notes/VERSION
index 8d8c61db..e274ee5a 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ mostly)
 
 3.0 (not yet released)
 
-#267: Raise minimum Java version for `jackson-annotations` to Java 8 for Jackson 3.x
+#272: Require JDK17 for jackson-annotations 3.0 for proper `module-info.java`
 - Change `JsonInclude.value`, `JsonInclude.content` to `USE_DEFAULTS` (from `ALWAYS`)