diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8f356c4..6080add 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-      <version>3.9</version>
+      <version>3.10</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- testing -->
     <dependency>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 0729907..bcbb990 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
     <action issue="TEXT-174" type="fix"    dev="ggregory" due-to="furkilic">ScriptStringLookup does not accept ":" #126.</action>
     <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">[build] Update JUnit from 5.5.2 to 5.6.0.</action>
     <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">[build] Update assertj-core from 3.14.0 to 3.15.0.</action>
+    <action issue="TEXT-177" type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Update from Apache Commons Lang 3.9 to 3.10.</action>
   </release>
   
   <release version="1.8" date="2019-08-30" description="Release 1.8">