diff --git a/autologging-aop-jvm-sandbox/pom.xml b/autologging-aop-jvm-sandbox/pom.xml
index 14d1634..ee1a9e5 100644
--- a/autologging-aop-jvm-sandbox/pom.xml
+++ b/autologging-aop-jvm-sandbox/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
-        <spring.version>4.3.5.RELEASE</spring.version>
+        <spring.version>5.3.18</spring.version>
         <kafka.version>1.0.0</kafka.version>
     </properties>