diff --git a/block-scouter-core/pom.xml b/block-scouter-core/pom.xml
index dae2738..35de8a4 100644
--- a/block-scouter-core/pom.xml
+++ b/block-scouter-core/pom.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-      <version>28.1-jre</version>
+      <version>29.0-jre</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <!-- apache common lang3 -->