diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index adb6529..287948d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ under the License.
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<stormcrawler.version>3.1.0</stormcrawler.version>
-		<storm.version>2.6.2</storm.version>
+		<storm.version>2.8.7</storm.version>
 	</properties>
 
 	<build>