diff --git a/com.ibm.research.ai.irsimple/pom.xml b/com.ibm.research.ai.irsimple/pom.xml
index 83cc0b3..510df5e 100644
--- a/com.ibm.research.ai.irsimple/pom.xml
+++ b/com.ibm.research.ai.irsimple/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 		  <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
 		  <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-		  <version>2.8.5</version>
+		  <version>2.8.9</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>