diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index c0095ec4f9..f5e8bdf7c8 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
       <artifactId>jmh-core</artifactId>
-      <version>1.27</version>
+      <version>1.28</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>