diff --git a/apache-libraries/pom.xml b/apache-libraries/pom.xml
index ded10b939f..bca80d9acd 100644
--- a/apache-libraries/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-libraries/pom.xml
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
             <version>${jackson.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.jayway.awaitility</groupId>
             <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
diff --git a/apache-libraries/src/test/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCountUnitTest.java b/apache-libraries/src/test/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCountUnitTest.java
index f2558635dc..77287066ac 100644
--- a/apache-libraries/src/test/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCountUnitTest.java
+++ b/apache-libraries/src/test/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCountUnitTest.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import com.baeldung.apache.beam.intro.WordCount;
 public class WordCountUnitTest {
     
     @Test
-    // @Ignore
     public void givenInputFile_whenWordCountRuns_thenJobFinishWithoutError() {
         boolean jobDone = WordCount.wordCount("src/test/resources/wordcount.txt", "target/output");
         assertTrue(jobDone);
diff --git a/jackson-modules/jackson-conversions-2/pom.xml b/jackson-modules/jackson-conversions-2/pom.xml
index 799fcb106a..a498c8b4f8 100644
--- a/jackson-modules/jackson-conversions-2/pom.xml
+++ b/jackson-modules/jackson-conversions-2/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
-            <version>${jackson-datatype.version}</version>
+            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <!-- CSV -->
         <dependency>
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
 
     <properties>
         <assertj.version>3.11.0</assertj.version>
-        <jackson-datatype.version>2.9.8</jackson-datatype.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 059c6dae25..b94283277b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@
         <jstl-api.version>1.2</jstl-api.version>
         <javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>2.3.1</javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>
         <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
-        <jackson.version>2.11.1</jackson.version>
+        <jackson.version>2.12.4</jackson.version>
         <commons-fileupload.version>1.4</commons-fileupload.version>
         <junit-platform.version>1.2.0</junit-platform.version>
         <junit-jupiter.version>5.2.0</junit-jupiter.version>