diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 8a25709b..95f17678 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
     </target>
 
     <target name="init-jacoco" depends="jar" unless="skip.test">
-        <ivy:cachepath organisation="org.jacoco" module="org.jacoco.ant" revision="0.7.9"
+        <ivy:cachepath organisation="org.jacoco" module="org.jacoco.ant" revision="0.8.1"
                        inline="true" conf="default" pathid="jacoco.classpath" log="download-only"/>
         <taskdef uri="antlib:org.jacoco.ant" resource="org/jacoco/ant/antlib.xml"
                  classpathref="jacoco.classpath"/>