diff --git a/provider/partition-ibm/pom.xml b/provider/partition-ibm/pom.xml
index 7b502bf64afaed69b5737ed90524ad54fffca59a..84a7804a678e8063189fa3ecf600df8eb2265e8b 100644
--- a/provider/partition-ibm/pom.xml
+++ b/provider/partition-ibm/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.opengroup.osdu</groupId>
             <artifactId>os-core-lib-ibm</artifactId>
-            <version>0.15.2</version>
+            <version>0.16.0-rc1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.opengroup.osdu</groupId>