diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 167ee9c292..c4c2134740 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     <rome-version>0.8</rome-version>
     <slf4j-version>1.4.0</slf4j-version>
     <!--<slf4j-version>1.0-rc5</slf4j-version>-->
-    <stax-version>1.1.1-dev</stax-version>
+    <stax-version>1.2.0</stax-version>
     <xalan-version>2.6.0</xalan-version>
     <xmlbeans-version>2.0.0-beta1</xmlbeans-version>
     <xmlpull-version>1.1.3.4d_b4_min</xmlpull-version>
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>stax</groupId>
         <artifactId>stax</artifactId>
-        <version>1.1.1-dev</version>
+        <version>${stax-version}</version>
       </dependency>
 
       <!-- To use XPath using JAXP 1.3 (std in Java 5) -->