diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 49ae00799..df5d046f8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.12.0</version>
+                <version>3.12.1</version>
             </plugin>
             <!-- adapted from https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/examples/build/pom.xml -->
             <!-- adapted from https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/blob/main/plugin-maven/README.md -->
diff --git a/sorald-api/pom.xml b/sorald-api/pom.xml
index f126b790a..37bda8585 100644
--- a/sorald-api/pom.xml
+++ b/sorald-api/pom.xml
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.12.0</version>
+                <version>3.12.1</version>
             </plugin>
             <!-- adapted from https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/examples/build/pom.xml -->
             <plugin>
diff --git a/sorald/pom.xml b/sorald/pom.xml
index d05918dea..5a730c10e 100644
--- a/sorald/pom.xml
+++ b/sorald/pom.xml
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.12.0</version>
+                <version>3.12.1</version>
             </plugin>
             <!-- To make repair goal work on mvn3.6.3 -->
             <!-- See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10188534/custom-type-converter-for-mojo-configuration -->