diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 44783e0dd..ffc019b73 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.tinkerpop</groupId>
                 <artifactId>neo4j-gremlin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.7.4</version>
+                <version>3.8.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <!-- used by schema2template for XML grammar to graph functionality -->
             <dependency>