diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 40268ae..403200e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   * New upstream release
     - Build the new jawn-util module
   * No longer build with the embedded SBT using Scala 2.10 (Closes: #893456)
+  * Fixed a build failure with Java 11
   * Standards-Version updated to 4.2.1
   * Switch to debhelper level 11
   * Added the missing Vcs-* fields
diff --git a/debian/patches/01-java11-compatibility.patch b/debian/patches/01-java11-compatibility.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab46117
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/01-java11-compatibility.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Description: Fixes the compatibility with Java 11
+Origin: backport, https://github.com/non/jawn/commit/928b7b78
+--- a/parser/src/main/scala/jawn/AsyncParser.scala
++++ b/parser/src/main/scala/jawn/AsyncParser.scala
+@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
+ 
+   final def absorb(buf: ByteBuffer)(implicit facade: Facade[J]): Either[ParseException, Seq[J]] = {
+     done = false
+-    val buflen = buf.limit - buf.position
++    val buflen = buf.limit() - buf.position()
+     val need = len + buflen
+     resizeIfNecessary(need)
+     buf.get(data, len, buflen)
+--- a/parser/src/main/scala/jawn/ByteBufferParser.scala
++++ b/parser/src/main/scala/jawn/ByteBufferParser.scala
+@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
+  * update its own mutable position fields.
+  */
+ final class ByteBufferParser[J](src: ByteBuffer) extends SyncParser[J] with ByteBasedParser[J] {
+-  private[this] final val start = src.position
+-  private[this] final val limit = src.limit - start
++  private[this] final val start = src.position()
++  private[this] final val limit = src.limit() - start
+ 
+   private[this] var lineState = 0
+   protected[this] def line(): Int = lineState
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 78e9091..181d7c6 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 #use-latest-sbt.patch
+01-java11-compatibility.patch