diff --git a/beast/pom.xml b/beast/pom.xml
index e07854f9..b9fabecd 100644
--- a/beast/pom.xml
+++ b/beast/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>
       <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-      <version>20230227</version>
+      <version>20231013</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.github.ferstl</groupId>