diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index abbb6f008..0754cafbd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
             <!-- used so that lombok can generate suppressions for spotbugs. It needs to find it on the relevant classpath -->
             <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
             <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-            <version>4.9.5</version>
+            <version>4.9.6</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
                             <dependency>
                                 <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
                                 <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-                                <version>4.9.5</version>
+                                <version>4.9.6</version>
                             </dependency>
                         </dependencies>
                         <executions>