Intellij doesn't respect the "release" configuration parameter for maven-compiler-plugin

I have configured the maven-compiler-plugin in following way in my pom

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.8.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <release>11</release>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

When I try to build the project I get 

Error:java: error: release version 5 not supported

If I add the following to the configuration it builds without any errors

<source>11</source>
<target>11</target>

I guess since "release" is a new configuration param for the compiler plugin. IntelliJ ignores it. It would be nice if this was supported.

Cheers!

ref : 

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html#release

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/javac.html

Platform details :

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.5 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-182.4892.20, built on October 16, 2018
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1248-b19 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
macOS 10.13.6