diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ab7957e..8fd6a8a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
       <artifactId>animal-sniffer-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>1.20</version>
+      <version>1.22</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- BigTable needs this version of Netty included to connect include linux and osx base 64 versions-->
     <dependency>