diff --git a/com.ibm.streamsx.hdfs/pom.xml b/com.ibm.streamsx.hdfs/pom.xml
index 1d01080..8238cea 100644
--- a/com.ibm.streamsx.hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/com.ibm.streamsx.hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 	  		<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
 	  		<artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-	  		<version>1.20</version>
+	  		<version>1.21</version>
 			<exclusions>
 				<exclusion>
 					<groupId>*</groupId>