diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 28d4951..5a3c296 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
     <failOnError>false</failOnError>
     <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-    <maven.dependency.version>3.6.3</maven.dependency.version>
+    <maven.dependency.version>3.8.1</maven.dependency.version>
     <commons.componentid>commons-release-plugin</commons.componentid>
     <commons.jira.id>COMMONSSITE</commons.jira.id>
     <commons.jira.pid>12310466&amp;amp;component=12312401</commons.jira.pid>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 420e4c1..829e947 100755
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory">Update Apache Commons Codec from 1.13 to 1.14.</action>
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory">Update JUnit from 4.12 to 4.13.2, #23 #39.</action>
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory">Update Maven dependencies from 3.6.1 to 3.6.3.</action>
+      <action type="update" dev="kinow" due-to="dependabot">Bump maven.dependency.version from 3.6.3 to 3.8.1 #47.</action>
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory">Update Apache Commons Compress from 1.19 to 1.20.</action>
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory">Update commons-io:commons-io from 2.6 to 2.8 #13.</action>
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory">Update checkstyle from 8.34 to 8.41.1 #5 #27 #31 #35 #40 #46.</action>