diff --git a/artemis-features/src/main/resources/features.xml b/artemis-features/src/main/resources/features.xml
index 5ceba11216..5d3c6a2980 100644
--- a/artemis-features/src/main/resources/features.xml
+++ b/artemis-features/src/main/resources/features.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
 		<bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.geronimo.specs/geronimo-jms_2.0_spec/${geronimo.jms.2.spec.version}</bundle>
 		<bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.commons/commons-configuration2/${commons.config.version}</bundle>
-		<bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.commons/commons-text/1.6</bundle>
+		<bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.commons/commons-text/${commons.text.version}</bundle>
 		<bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.commons/commons-lang3/${commons.lang.version}</bundle>
 		<bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.jctools/jctools-core/${jctools.version}</bundle>
 		<!-- Micrometer can't be included until it supports OSGi. It is currently an "optional" Maven dependency. -->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 239d366807..1cb536d83e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
       <apache.derby.version>10.11.1.1</apache.derby.version>
       <commons.beanutils.version>1.9.4</commons.beanutils.version>
       <commons.collections.version>3.2.2</commons.collections.version>
+      <commons.text.version>1.8</commons.text.version>
       <fuse.mqtt.client.version>1.16</fuse.mqtt.client.version>
       <guava.version>24.1.1-jre</guava.version>
       <jboss.logging.version>3.4.0.Final</jboss.logging.version>