diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 2578feb..9ad0dc0 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 ./test/docs/*                       for running tests
 
 XmlBeans depends on the following external libraries:
+- slf4j-api [http://www.slf4j.org/] for logging
 - javaparser-core (O) [https://github.com/javaparser/javaparser]
 - Saxon-HE (O) [http://saxon.sourceforge.net/]
   for XPath/XQuery in XmlBeans
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index cd79210..803397a 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
     <!-- dependencies -->
     <dependency prefix="xml-apis" artifact="xml-apis:xml-apis:1.4.01" usage="java8"/>
     <dependency prefix="slf4j-api" artifact="org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.30" usage="main"/>
-    <dependency prefix="saxon" artifact="net.sf.saxon:Saxon-HE:10.2" usage="main"/>
+    <dependency prefix="saxon" artifact="net.sf.saxon:Saxon-HE:10.3" usage="main"/>
     <dependency prefix="ant" artifact="org.apache.ant:ant:1.10.8" usage="main"/>
     <dependency prefix="javaparser.core" artifact="com.github.javaparser:javaparser-core:3.16.1" usage="main"/>
 
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@
             we often had hard-to-find build/CI-problems because of these! -->
         <delete dir="compile-lib"/>
         <delete dir="lib/main" includes="javaparser-core-3.15.21.jar"/>
+        <delete dir="lib/main" includes="Saxon-HE-10.2.jar"/>
         <delete dir="lib/util" includes="forbiddenapis-2.6.jar,apache-rat-0.12.jar"/>
         <condition property="jars.present">
             <or>
diff --git a/src/main/multimodule/java9/module-info.class b/src/main/multimodule/java9/module-info.class
index ada2703..af3876f 100644
--- a/src/main/multimodule/java9/module-info.class
+++ b/src/main/multimodule/java9/module-info.class
Binary files differ
diff --git a/src/main/resources/maven/pom.xml b/src/main/resources/maven/pom.xml
index cfd1602..365d184 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/maven/pom.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/maven/pom.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.sf.saxon</groupId>
             <artifactId>Saxon-HE</artifactId>
-            <version>10.2</version>
+            <version>10.3</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>