diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4d5745add..0561abe17 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
     <redback.spring-utils.version>2.0</redback.spring-utils.version>
     <redback.taskqueue.version>2.0</redback.taskqueue.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.1</slf4j.version>
-    <log4j.version>2.0-beta1</log4j.version>
+    <log4j.version>2.0-beta2</log4j.version>
 
     <spring.version>3.1.2.RELEASE</spring.version>