diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
index fe4862dc..e9c10530 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.beust</groupId>
       <artifactId>jcommander</artifactId>
-      <version>1.72</version>
+      <version>1.81</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>