diff --git a/rxjava2-jdbc/pom.xml b/rxjava2-jdbc/pom.xml
index 10d7dd5e..c6150bf2 100644
--- a/rxjava2-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/rxjava2-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.12.0</version>
+            <version>2.13.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/rxjava2-jdbc/src/test/java/org/davidmoten/rx/jdbc/pool/DatabaseCreator.java b/rxjava2-jdbc/src/test/java/org/davidmoten/rx/jdbc/pool/DatabaseCreator.java
index b2528bb5..0ccb1371 100644
--- a/rxjava2-jdbc/src/test/java/org/davidmoten/rx/jdbc/pool/DatabaseCreator.java
+++ b/rxjava2-jdbc/src/test/java/org/davidmoten/rx/jdbc/pool/DatabaseCreator.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.davidmoten.rx.jdbc.pool;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.sql.Connection;
 import java.sql.DriverManager;
@@ -345,9 +344,7 @@ private static void createDatabase(Connection c, boolean big) {
             exec(c, "create table note(id bigint auto_increment primary key, text varchar(255))");
         } catch (SQLException e) {
             throw new SQLRuntimeException(e);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new RuntimeException(e);
-        }
+        } 
     }
 
     private static void exec(Connection c, String sql) throws SQLException {