diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d3356b0f..17db3e36 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
-      <version>9.6.0</version>
+      <version>9.7.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- XML handling https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind -->
     <dependency>