diff --git a/inerop/java/pom.xml b/inerop/java/pom.xml
index 870119da..2186054f 100644
--- a/inerop/java/pom.xml
+++ b/inerop/java/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 
-        <grpc.version>1.42.1</grpc.version>
+        <grpc.version>1.53.0</grpc.version>
         <protobuf.version>3.7.1</protobuf.version>
     </properties>