diff --git a/drkafka/pom.xml b/drkafka/pom.xml
index 26eb0851..3a6bfade 100644
--- a/drkafka/pom.xml
+++ b/drkafka/pom.xml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
 			<artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
-			<version>2.12.7</version>
+			<version>2.13.1</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.dropwizard.metrics/metrics-core -->
 		<dependency>