diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index aeedd01..60e3780 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
           <artifactId>lucene-core</artifactId>
-          <version>4.10.3</version>
+          <version>7.1.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>