diff --git a/docs/examples/springboot-kafka-avro/pom.xml b/docs/examples/springboot-kafka-avro/pom.xml
index be7465f38..62284bac3 100644
--- a/docs/examples/springboot-kafka-avro/pom.xml
+++ b/docs/examples/springboot-kafka-avro/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
             <artifactId>avro</artifactId>   <!-- <2> -->
-            <version>1.8.2</version>
+            <version>1.11.3</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>