diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4488471..698f518 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
             <artifactId>tika-core</artifactId>
-            <version>1.28.3</version>
+            <version>3.0.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <!-- three artifacts for complete configuration parsing -->
         <dependency>