diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b7e51ff18..6d198fe35 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@
     <checkstyle.configdir>src/site/resources/checkstyle</checkstyle.configdir>
 
     <commons.spotbugs.plugin.version>4.6.0.0</commons.spotbugs.plugin.version>
-    <commons.spotbugs.impl.version>4.6.0</commons.spotbugs.impl.version>
+    <commons.spotbugs.impl.version>4.7.0</commons.spotbugs.impl.version>
     <japicmp.skip>false</japicmp.skip>
     <clirr.skip>true</clirr.skip>
 
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index e239b4f69..5d14474d1 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
     <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 #819, #825, #859.</action>
     <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump actions/setup-java from v1.4.3 to 3 #879.</action>
     <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot, Gary Gregory">Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.2.0 to 4.6.0.0 #735, #808, #822, #834, #868.</action>
-    <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot, Gary Gregory">Bump spotbugs from 4.2.2 to 4.6.0 #744.</action>
+    <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot, Gary Gregory">Bump spotbugs from 4.2.2 to 4.7.0 #744, #896.</action>
     <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot, Gary Gregory">Bump checkstyle from 8.41 to 9.2.1 #739, #768, #787, #811, #824, #843.</action>
     <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Bump easymock from 4.2 to 4.3 #746.</action>
     <action                   type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump commons.jacoco.version 0.8.6 -> 0.8.7.</action>