diff --git a/dataflow/flex-templates/kafka_to_bigquery/pom.xml b/dataflow/flex-templates/kafka_to_bigquery/pom.xml
index 6efb8e7da13..3a3977dee85 100644
--- a/dataflow/flex-templates/kafka_to_bigquery/pom.xml
+++ b/dataflow/flex-templates/kafka_to_bigquery/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 
-    <beam.version>2.31.0</beam.version>
+    <beam.version>2.71.0</beam.version>
     <kafka.version>6.2.1-ce</kafka.version>
 
     <maven-enforcer-plugin.version>3.0.0</maven-enforcer-plugin.version>