diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a68fe0e..4b9a500 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>maven-verifier</artifactId>
-  <version>1.8.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
   <name>Apache Maven Verifier Component</name>
   <description>Provides a test harness for Maven integration tests.</description>
 
   <properties>
-    <javaVersion>7</javaVersion>
+    <javaVersion>8</javaVersion>
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2022-03-19T12:57:53Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
   </properties>
 
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>4.13.2</version>
+      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
+      <version>5.8.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/Verifier.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/Verifier.java
index 5313698..d5ba884 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/Verifier.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/Verifier.java
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 import org.apache.maven.shared.utils.cli.StreamConsumer;
 import org.apache.maven.shared.utils.cli.WriterStreamConsumer;
 import org.apache.maven.shared.utils.io.FileUtils;
-import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
 import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ public void assertFilePresent( String file )
         }
         catch ( VerificationException e )
         {
-            Assert.fail( e.getMessage() );
+            Assertions.fail( e.getMessage() );
         }
     }
 
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ public void assertFileMatches( String file, String regex )
         }
         catch ( VerificationException e )
         {
-            Assert.fail( e.getMessage() );
+            Assertions.fail( e.getMessage() );
         }
     }
 
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ public void assertFileNotPresent( String file )
         }
         catch ( VerificationException e )
         {
-            Assert.fail( e.getMessage() );
+            Assertions.fail( e.getMessage() );
         }
     }
 
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ private void assertArtifactPresence( boolean wanted, String org, String name, St
         }
         catch ( VerificationException e )
         {
-            Assert.fail( e.getMessage() );
+            Assertions.fail( e.getMessage() );
         }
     }
 
@@ -1924,7 +1924,7 @@ public void assertArtifactContents( String org, String artifact, String version,
         throws IOException
     {
         String fileName = getArtifactPath( org, artifact, version, type );
-        Assert.assertEquals( contents, FileUtils.fileRead( fileName ) );
+        Assertions.assertEquals( contents, FileUtils.fileRead( fileName ) );
     }
 
     static class UserModelReader
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/Embedded3xLauncherTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/Embedded3xLauncherTest.java
index 9548a1b..d3d697a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/Embedded3xLauncherTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/Embedded3xLauncherTest.java
@@ -19,22 +19,22 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import java.io.File;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
-import org.junit.Rule;
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 
 import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 
+
 public class Embedded3xLauncherTest
 {
-    @Rule
-    public TemporaryFolder temporaryFolder = new TemporaryFolder();
+    @TempDir
+    public Path temporaryFolder;
 
 
     private final String workingDir = Paths.get( "src/test/resources" ).toAbsolutePath().toString();
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ public void testWithMavenHome() throws Exception
 
     private void runLauncher( MavenLauncher launcher ) throws Exception
     {
-        File logFile = temporaryFolder.newFile( "build.log" );
+        Path logFile = temporaryFolder.resolve( "build.log" );
 
-        int exitCode = launcher.run( new String[] {"clean"}, new Properties(), workingDir, logFile );
+        int exitCode = launcher.run( new String[] {"clean"}, new Properties(), workingDir, logFile.toFile() );
 
         assertThat( "exit code unexpected, build log: " + System.lineSeparator() +
-                        new String( Files.readAllBytes( logFile.toPath() ) ), exitCode, is( 0 ) );
+                        new String( Files.readAllBytes( logFile ) ), exitCode, is( 0 ) );
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/ForkedLauncherTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/ForkedLauncherTest.java
index 1173593..9087035 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/ForkedLauncherTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/ForkedLauncherTest.java
@@ -22,26 +22,28 @@
  */
 
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
-import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
-import org.junit.Rule;
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
 
 public class ForkedLauncherTest
 {
-    @Rule
-    public TemporaryFolder temporaryFolder = new TemporaryFolder();
+    @TempDir
+    public Path temporaryFolder;
     
     private ForkedLauncher launcher;
     
@@ -51,9 +53,9 @@ public class ForkedLauncherTest
     public void mvnw() throws Exception
     {
         launcher = new ForkedLauncher( ".", Collections.<String, String>emptyMap(), false, true );
-        File logFile = temporaryFolder.newFile( "build.log" );
+        Path logFile = temporaryFolder.resolve( "build.log" );
 
-        int exitCode = launcher.run( new String[0], new Properties(), workingDir, logFile );
+        int exitCode = launcher.run( new String[0], new Properties(), workingDir, logFile.toFile() );
 
         // most likely this contains the exception in case exitCode != 0
         expectFileLine( logFile, "Hello World" );
@@ -65,9 +67,9 @@ public void mvnw() throws Exception
     public void mvnwDebug() throws Exception
     {
         launcher = new ForkedLauncher( ".", Collections.<String, String>emptyMap(), true, true );
-        File logFile = temporaryFolder.newFile( "build.log" );
+        Path logFile = temporaryFolder.resolve( "build.log" );
 
-        int exitCode = launcher.run( new String[0], new Properties(), workingDir, logFile );
+        int exitCode = launcher.run( new String[0], new Properties(), workingDir, logFile.toFile() );
 
         // most likely this contains the exception in case exitCode != 0
         expectFileLine( logFile, "Hello World" );
@@ -75,10 +77,9 @@ public void mvnwDebug() throws Exception
         assertThat( "exit code", exitCode , is ( 0 ) );
     }
 
-    static void expectFileLine( File file, String expectedline ) throws IOException
+    static void expectFileLine( Path file, String expectedline ) throws IOException
     {
-        try ( FileReader fr = new FileReader( file );
-              BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( fr ) )
+        try ( BufferedReader br = Files.newBufferedReader( file, StandardCharsets.UTF_8 ) )
         {
             Collection<String> text = new ArrayList<>();
             String line;
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ static void expectFileLine( File file, String expectedline ) throws IOException
             }
 
             String message = "%s doesn't contain '%s', was:\n%s";
-            fail( String.format( message, file.getName(), expectedline, text ) );
+            fail( String.format( message, file.getFileName().toString(), expectedline, text ) );
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/VerifierTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/VerifierTest.java
index 69cd80a..2fcc164 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/VerifierTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/VerifierTest.java
@@ -19,28 +19,24 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
-import org.junit.Rule;
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
-import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 
-import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.isA;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertInstanceOf;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
 
 public class VerifierTest
 {
-    @Rule
-    public final ExpectedException exception = ExpectedException.none();
-
-    @Rule
-    public TemporaryFolder temporaryFolder = new TemporaryFolder();
+    @TempDir
+    public Path temporaryFolder;
 
     private void check( String expected, String... lines )
     {
@@ -105,19 +101,20 @@ public void testStripAnsi()
     @Test
     public void testLoadPropertiesFNFE() throws VerificationException
     {
-        exception.expectCause( isA( FileNotFoundException.class ) );
-
-        Verifier verifier = new Verifier( "src/test/resources" );
-        verifier.loadProperties( "unknown.properties" );
+        VerificationException exception = assertThrows( VerificationException.class, () -> {
+            Verifier verifier = new Verifier( "src/test/resources" );
+            verifier.loadProperties( "unknown.properties" );
+        } );
+        assertInstanceOf( FileNotFoundException.class, exception.getCause() );
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testDedicatedMavenHome() throws VerificationException, IOException
     {
         String mavenHome = Paths.get( "src/test/resources/maven-home" ).toAbsolutePath().toString();
-        Verifier verifier = new Verifier( temporaryFolder.getRoot().toString(), null, false, mavenHome );
+        Verifier verifier = new Verifier( temporaryFolder.toString(), null, false, mavenHome );
         verifier.executeGoal( "some-goal" );
-        File logFile = new File( verifier.getBasedir(), verifier.getLogFileName() );
+        Path logFile = Paths.get( verifier.getBasedir(), verifier.getLogFileName() );
         ForkedLauncherTest.expectFileLine( logFile, "Hello World from Maven Home" );
     }