diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b82a6e5..328c8d5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 	<properties>
 		<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
 		<jdk.version>1.6</jdk.version>
-		<lucene.version>3.5.0</lucene.version>
+		<lucene.version>7.1.0</lucene.version>
 		<solr.version>3.5.0</solr.version>
 		<hadoop.core.version>0.23.0-mr1-cdh4b1</hadoop.core.version> <!-- 0.23.1-mr1-cdh4.0.0b2 -->
 		<hadoop.version>0.23.0-cdh4b1</hadoop.version> <!-- 0.23.1-cdh4.0.0b2 -->