diff --git a/.github/workflows/maven-verify.yml b/.github/workflows/maven-verify.yml
index 94686fa6..940ef58a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/maven-verify.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/maven-verify.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ jobs:
     with:
       # maven-args: "-Dinvoker.parallelThreads=2" cannot do this as this generate some concurrent download issues
       jdk-distribution-matrix: '[ "temurin", "zulu", "microsoft", "adopt-openj9" ]'
-      ff-jdk: "20"
-      jdk-matrix: '[ "8", "11", "17", "20" ]'
-      matrix-exclude: '[{ "jdk": "8", "distribution": "microsoft"},{ "jdk": "20", "distribution": "microsoft"},{ "jdk": "20", "distribution": "adopt-openj9"},]'
-      maven-matrix: '[ "3.3.9", "3.8.8", "3.9.2" ]'  # Maven versions matrix for verify builds
+      ff-jdk: "20-ea"
+      jdk-matrix: '[ "21-ea" ]'
+      verify-fail-fast: false
+      matrix-exclude: '[{ "jdk": "21-ea", "distribution": "microsoft"},{ "jdk": "21-ea", "distribution": "adopt-openj9"},]'
+      maven-matrix: '[ "3.9.2" ]'  # Maven versions matrix for verify builds