diff --git a/jhdf/build.gradle b/jhdf/build.gradle
index c9c4fab5..ef0492cc 100644
--- a/jhdf/build.gradle
+++ b/jhdf/build.gradle
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ dependencies {
     // Alternative bitshuffle impl to check results against
     testImplementation 'org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java:1.1.10.7'
     // For parsing h5dump XML output
-    testImplementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.17.2'
+    testImplementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.18.0'
     testImplementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.17.0'
 }