diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b3f4da0f72..7a371fbfb0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.vdurmont</groupId>
             <artifactId>emoji-java</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.3</version>
+            <version>5.1.1</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- semantic versioning parser -->