diff --git a/examples/iot-nirvana/client/pom.xml b/examples/iot-nirvana/client/pom.xml
index 041ed59d04..5b0ec8c589 100644
--- a/examples/iot-nirvana/client/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/iot-nirvana/client/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     <commons.cli.version>1.4</commons.cli.version>
     <google.api.services.cloudiot.version>v1-rev17-1.23.0</google.api.services.cloudiot.version>
     <google.cloud.logging>1.15.0</google.cloud.logging>
-    <gson.version>2.3.1</gson.version>
+    <gson.version>2.8.9</gson.version>
     <iot.nirvana.common.version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</iot.nirvana.common.version>
     <jjwt.version>0.7.0</jjwt.version>
     <joda.time.version>2.1</joda.time.version>