diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 15698dd54..dccdf025e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
         <artifactId>error_prone_core</artifactId>
         <!-- 2.32.0 and 2.33.0 break our java 11 build with compiler errors, I reported this to the
         errorprone team, but try upgrading to new versions in the future-->
-        <version>2.31.0</version>
+        <version>2.36.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>