diff --git a/Interop/ONNX/pom.xml b/Interop/ONNX/pom.xml
index 49fe8c760..6e87fce54 100644
--- a/Interop/ONNX/pom.xml
+++ b/Interop/ONNX/pom.xml
@@ -108,11 +108,6 @@
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
-    <properties>
-        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-    </properties>
-
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e376a56de..e4935ca4c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
         <!-- 3rd party backend dependencies -->
         <liblinear.version>2.44</liblinear.version>
         <libsvm.version>3.25</libsvm.version>
-        <onnxruntime.version>1.15.0-rc1</onnxruntime.version>
+        <onnxruntime.version>1.16.0-rc2</onnxruntime.version>
         <tensorflow.version>0.5.0</tensorflow.version>
         <xgboost.version>1.6.2</xgboost.version>