diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8c8e1faf..be0844a5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 		<antlr.version>2.7.7</antlr.version>
 		<apache-shiro.version>1.3.2</apache-shiro.version>
 		<cache-api.version>1.0.0</cache-api.version>
-		<gemfire.version>9.7.0</gemfire.version>
+		<gemfire.version>9.8.0</gemfire.version>
 		<google-code-findbugs.version>2.0.2</google-code-findbugs.version>
 		<multithreadedtc.version>1.01</multithreadedtc.version>
 		<snappy.version>0.4</snappy.version>