diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index 0d1a9932..ec4bb5c6 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>templating-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.0</version>
+        <version>3.0.0</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>generate-version-class</id>