diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index a99d11d9f00..aafb87d0234 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
       <artifactId>jmh-core</artifactId>
-      <version>1.35</version>
+      <version>1.36</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>