diff --git a/molecule/default/molecule.yml b/molecule/default/molecule.yml
index 1877db60..0ff26346 100644
--- a/molecule/default/molecule.yml
+++ b/molecule/default/molecule.yml
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ provisioner:
           jacoco:
             enabled: false
             home: /tmp/jacoco
-            version: 0.8.1
+            version: 0.8.6
           maxfileuploadsizeinbytes:
           file_fixity_checksum_algorithm: "MD5"
           memheap: 2048
diff --git a/tasks/jacoco-download.yml b/tasks/jacoco-download.yml
index 68fb9f3d..336ba786 100644
--- a/tasks/jacoco-download.yml
+++ b/tasks/jacoco-download.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     state: directory
     mode: '0755'
 
-- name: download jacoco. currently 0.8.1 is required per pom.xml
+- name: download jacoco. currently 0.8.6 is required per develop branch pom.xml
   unarchive:
     src: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jacoco/jacoco/{{ dataverse.jacoco.version }}/jacoco-{{ dataverse.jacoco.version }}.zip
     dest: '{{ dataverse.jacoco.home }}'