diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ca575c98..02e8cb1e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     <DBinit.path.libextZip>graphulo-${project.version}-libext</DBinit.path.libextZip>
     <test>TEST_CONFIG</test>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <accumulo.version>1.8.1</accumulo.version>
+    <accumulo.version>1.10.1</accumulo.version>
     <accumulo.version.majorminor>1.8</accumulo.version.majorminor>
     <hadoop.version>2.7.2</hadoop.version>
     <htrace.version>3.1.0-incubating</htrace.version>