diff --git a/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore-spring/pom.xml b/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore-spring/pom.xml
index c8882ca67a..8ef5caac15 100644
--- a/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore-spring/pom.xml
+++ b/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore-spring/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
             extraction of appengine-java-sdk
         -->
         <appengine.applicationid>jclouds-tweetstore-spring</appengine.applicationid>
-        <appengine.sdk.version>1.5.5</appengine.sdk.version>
+        <appengine.sdk.version>1.6.1</appengine.sdk.version>
         <devappserver.address>localhost</devappserver.address>
         <devappserver.port>8088</devappserver.port>
         <jclouds.tweetstore.container>jclouds-gae-tweetstore-spring</jclouds.tweetstore.container>
diff --git a/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore/pom.xml b/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore/pom.xml
index 39e17b5fdd..d1d53935e6 100644
--- a/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore/pom.xml
+++ b/demos/tweetstore/gae-tweetstore/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
           extraction of appengine-java-sdk
         -->
         <appengine.applicationid>jclouds-tweetstore</appengine.applicationid>
-        <appengine.sdk.version>1.5.5</appengine.sdk.version>
+        <appengine.sdk.version>1.6.1</appengine.sdk.version>
         <devappserver.address>localhost</devappserver.address>
         <devappserver.port>8088</devappserver.port>
         <jclouds.tweetstore.container>jclouds-gae-tweetstore</jclouds.tweetstore.container>