diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 9e1de8d144..122759cfa3 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
           <dependency groupId="log4j" artifactId="log4j" version="1.2.16" />
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.cassandra" artifactId="cassandra-all" version="${version}" />
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.cassandra" artifactId="cassandra-thrift" version="${version}" />
-          <dependency groupId="com.yammer.metrics" artifactId="metrics-core" version="2.0.3" />
+          <dependency groupId="com.yammer.metrics" artifactId="metrics-core" version="2.2.0" />
           <dependency groupId="edu.stanford.ppl" artifactId="snaptree" version="0.1" />
           <dependency groupId="org.mindrot" artifactId="jbcrypt" version="0.3m" />
           <dependency groupId="io.netty" artifactId="netty" version="3.6.6.Final" />