diff --git a/provider/notification-ibm/pom.xml b/provider/notification-ibm/pom.xml
index 5d5400444330f94bfc6d1ab57da767fe8ad4dec2..914b68a930091e202f25faa5a61df6a1f27a747a 100644
--- a/provider/notification-ibm/pom.xml
+++ b/provider/notification-ibm/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.opengroup.osdu</groupId>
             <artifactId>os-core-lib-ibm</artifactId>
-            <version>0.15.2</version>
+            <version>0.16.0-rc1</version>
             <exclusions>
             	<exclusion>
             		<groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>