diff --git a/arrow-avro/Cargo.toml b/arrow-avro/Cargo.toml
index dbe3fd8162bb..96af73348156 100644
--- a/arrow-avro/Cargo.toml
+++ b/arrow-avro/Cargo.toml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ arrow = { workspace = true }
 futures = "0.3.31"
 bytes = "1.10.1"
 async-stream = "0.3.6"
-apache-avro = "0.14.0"
+apache-avro = "0.20.0"
 num-bigint = "0.4"
 once_cell = "1.21.3"