diff --git a/server/pom.xml b/server/pom.xml
index baa60b8da8..c4594e2bbf 100644
--- a/server/pom.xml
+++ b/server/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <detekt.skip>false</detekt.skip>
     <failsafe.skipAfterFailureCount>10</failsafe.skipAfterFailureCount>
     <failsafe.rerunFailingTestsCount>0</failsafe.rerunFailingTestsCount>
-    <kotlin.version>1.2.50</kotlin.version>
+    <kotlin.version>1.6.0</kotlin.version>
     <kotlin.compiler.incremental>true</kotlin.compiler.incremental>
     <kotlin.compiler.jvmTarget>1.8</kotlin.compiler.jvmTarget>
 <!-- We can use these if we don't want the lang/API version set by the compiler version: