diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c3b4bd7..d44a494 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
         <!-- Root exception is java.sql.SQLNonTransientException:
         DSRA4000E: No implementations of org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource40 are found
         for dataSource[DefaultDataSource] with library derbyJDBCLib.-->
-        <derby.version>10.14.2.0</derby.version>
+        <derby.version>10.16.1.1</derby.version>
         <liberty-maven-plugin.version>3.6.1</liberty-maven-plugin.version>
         <arquillian-liberty.version>1.0.8</arquillian-liberty.version>
         <cxf.version>3.5.5</cxf.version>