diff --git a/apache-tika/pom.xml b/apache-tika/pom.xml
index 896b88ec4b39..ae293888301b 100644
--- a/apache-tika/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-tika/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>
-        <tika.version>1.17</tika.version>
+        <tika.version>1.18</tika.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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