diff --git a/jvm-packages/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
index 4c5bd2085..04cffa32c 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
         <maven.version>3.3.9</maven.version>
-        <spark.version>2.0.1</spark.version>
+        <spark.version>2.1.0</spark.version>
         <flink.suffix>_2.11</flink.suffix>
         <scala.version>2.11.8</scala.version>
         <scala.binary.version>2.11</scala.binary.version>