diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 1f16f38a7d7316ddacda7f8eb40dfefa3d97c28f..0d041f05f56e0013ade26e3d5edeef0972ab9b51 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.sun.winsw</groupId>
       <artifactId>winsw</artifactId>
-      <version>1.3</version>
+      <version>1.5</version>
       <classifier>bin</classifier>
       <type>exe</type>
       <scope>provided</scope><!-- this isn't really a dependency that Maven should care about, so putting 'provided' -->