diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f210e63..175b0af 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
 		<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-		<lucene.version>8.5.1</lucene.version>
+		<lucene.version>8.7.0</lucene.version>
 		<luceneappengine.version>4.4.0</luceneappengine.version>
 		<slf4j.version>1.7.13</slf4j.version>
 		<gae.application.name>bigtablelucene</gae.application.name>