diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2c50510..a7025df 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
     <properties>
         <jee.version>7</jee.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <avro.version>1.8.2</avro.version>
+        <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.version>
         <bigquery.connector.hadoop2.version>hadoop2-1.0.0</bigquery.connector.hadoop2.version>
         <commons.codec.version>1.4</commons.codec.version>
         <cdap.version>6.1.1</cdap.version>