diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2c7ba478..53dae5b2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@
       <!-- hudson finds Version.java twice and fails with a duplicate class-error -->
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.3.2</version>
+        <version>3.4.0</version>
         <configuration>
           <filesets>
             <fileset>