diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index d9d586cb..cceedea0 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
       <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
-      <version>1.1.7</version>
+      <version>1.2.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>