diff --git a/v2/bigquery-to-parquet/pom.xml b/v2/bigquery-to-parquet/pom.xml
index df1b162326..c75b7eda5e 100644
--- a/v2/bigquery-to-parquet/pom.xml
+++ b/v2/bigquery-to-parquet/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <properties>
-        <avro.version>1.8.2</avro.version>
+        <avro.version>1.11.5</avro.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>