diff --git a/autoextractor-spark/pom.xml b/autoextractor-spark/pom.xml
index a2b8af3..51b451d 100644
--- a/autoextractor-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/autoextractor-spark/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <scala.version>2.11</scala.version>
-        <spark.version>1.6.0</spark.version>
+        <spark.version>2.4.8</spark.version>
         <nutch.version>1.11</nutch.version>
     </properties>