diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 54158c11c82..f79f015c209 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <metamx.java-util.version>0.26.8</metamx.java-util.version>
+        <metamx.java-util.version>0.26.9</metamx.java-util.version>
         <apache.curator.version>2.6.0</apache.curator.version>
         <druid.api.version>0.2.12</druid.api.version>
     </properties>