diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 05f59a9b4140b..377fe42d297c4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     <java.version>1.6</java.version>
     <sbt.project.name>spark</sbt.project.name>
     <scala.macros.version>2.0.1</scala.macros.version>
-    <mesos.version>0.18.1</mesos.version>
+    <mesos.version>0.21.0</mesos.version>
     <mesos.classifier>shaded-protobuf</mesos.classifier>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.5</slf4j.version>
     <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>