diff --git a/crawler4j-frontier/crawler4j-frontier-hsqldb/pom.xml b/crawler4j-frontier/crawler4j-frontier-hsqldb/pom.xml
index ce7484190..1e189bcd9 100644
--- a/crawler4j-frontier/crawler4j-frontier-hsqldb/pom.xml
+++ b/crawler4j-frontier/crawler4j-frontier-hsqldb/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     <artifactId>crawler4j-frontier-hsqldb</artifactId>
 
     <properties>
-        <hikaricp.version>7.0.2</hikaricp.version>
+        <hikaricp.version>7.1.0</hikaricp.version>
         <hsqldb.version>2.7.4</hsqldb.version>
     </properties>