diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index b63f9be06d6..62758ef7712 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
       <artifactId>hamcrest</artifactId>
-      <version>2.2</version>
+      <version>3.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Benchmarking dependencies -->