diff --git a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-vlm/pom.xml b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-vlm/pom.xml
index 81f31363c59..eeddec60751 100644
--- a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-vlm/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-vlm/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <name>Apache Tika VLM module</name>
 
   <properties>
-    <commonmark.version>0.28.0</commonmark.version>
+    <commonmark.version>0.29.0</commonmark.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>