diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f0545d91f..0f6a64abe 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
             <!-- used so that lombok can generate suppressions for spotbugs. It needs to find it on the relevant classpath -->
             <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
             <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-            <version>4.7.3</version>
+            <version>4.8.1</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
                         <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-                        <version>4.7.3</version>
+                        <version>4.8.1</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <executions>