diff --git a/commontools/filecleaner-j7/pom.xml b/commontools/filecleaner-j7/pom.xml
index a1edd900..a20018e5 100644
--- a/commontools/filecleaner-j7/pom.xml
+++ b/commontools/filecleaner-j7/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 	<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
 	<properties>
 		<junit.version>4.8.2</junit.version>
-		<logback.version>1.1.2</logback.version>
+		<logback.version>1.2.0</logback.version>
 		<slf4j.version>1.7.10</slf4j.version>
 		<commons.lang3.version>3.3.2</commons.lang3.version>
 		<commons.cli.version>1.2</commons.cli.version>