diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/pom.xml b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/pom.xml
index 4c1a4e83370..812d5b79618 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/pom.xml
@@ -658,6 +658,11 @@
 			<artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
 			<optional>true</optional>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
+			<artifactId>kotlin-stdlib</artifactId>
+			<optional>true</optional>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.jooq</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jooq</artifactId>