diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
index 0c7c11b3978..34e519b4c81 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
 		<snakeyaml.version>1.23</snakeyaml.version>
 		<solr.version>7.7.3</solr.version>
 		<!-- deprecated in favor of "spring-framework.version" -->
-		<spring.version>5.1.15.RELEASE</spring.version>
+		<spring.version>5.1.16.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</spring.version>
 		<spring-amqp.version>2.1.14.RELEASE</spring-amqp.version>
 		<spring-batch.version>4.1.4.RELEASE</spring-batch.version>
 		<spring-cloud-connectors.version>2.0.7.RELEASE</spring-cloud-connectors.version>