diff --git a/tokenizers/java/pom.xml b/tokenizers/java/pom.xml
index e0fe5f5..51cebce 100644
--- a/tokenizers/java/pom.xml
+++ b/tokenizers/java/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6</version>
+            <version>2.7</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>