diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9f38a918..07928ebd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
       <!-- gson, to fetch entities from w3.org -->
       <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
       <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-      <version>2.7</version>
+      <version>2.8.9</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>