diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 653b508a..0c046d3f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 		 <java.version>11</java.version>
 		 <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 						
-		 <lucene.version>6.6.0</lucene.version>
+		 <lucene.version>7.1.0</lucene.version>
 			
 		 <!-- Used by neo4j-related components -->
 		 <rdf2neo.version>4.0-SNAPSHOT</rdf2neo.version>