diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/gpg/SignAndDeployFileMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/gpg/SignAndDeployFileMojo.java
index a80ed83..e2a151c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/gpg/SignAndDeployFileMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/gpg/SignAndDeployFileMojo.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -489,7 +490,7 @@ private File generatePomFile() throws MojoExecutionException {
         Model model = generateModel();
 
         try {
-            File tempFile = File.createTempFile("mvndeploy", ".pom");
+            File tempFile = Files.createTempFile("mvndeploy", ".pom").toFile();
             tempFile.deleteOnExit();
 
             try (Writer fw = WriterFactory.newXmlWriter(tempFile)) {