diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index e40f1d2a6d..d153882aba 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@
 
           <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="4.6" />
           <dependency groupId="commons-logging" artifactId="commons-logging" version="1.1.1"/>
-          <dependency groupId="org.apache.rat" artifactId="apache-rat" version="0.6">
+          <dependency groupId="org.apache.rat" artifactId="apache-rat" version="0.10">
              <exclusion groupId="commons-lang" artifactId="commons-lang"/>
           </dependency>
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.hadoop" artifactId="hadoop-core" version="1.0.3">