diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9d52a9f504019..6749dfd8422df 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -165,8 +165,11 @@
       errors building different Hadoop versions.
       See: SPARK-36547, SPARK-38394.
        -->
-
-    <scala-maven-plugin.version>4.6.2</scala-maven-plugin.version>
+    <!--
+      SPARK-39502: Please don't upgrade the version to 4.6.2 due to
+      there is a compilation issue when run `mvn test` with Java 8
+      -->
+    <scala-maven-plugin.version>4.6.1</scala-maven-plugin.version>
     <!-- for now, not running scalafmt as part of default verify pipeline -->
     <scalafmt.skip>true</scalafmt.skip>
     <codehaus.jackson.version>1.9.13</codehaus.jackson.version>