diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8b43a51b..47233ce9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.7</slf4j.version>
-        <logback.version>1.1.2</logback.version>
+        <logback.version>1.2.0</logback.version>
         <commons-codec.version>1.9</commons-codec.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.4</commons-io.version>
         <guava.version>17.0</guava.version>