diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 691bbb5184..a2fdcf2dc2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
     <hadoop.version>2.10.1</hadoop.version>
     <cascading.version>2.7.1</cascading.version>
     <cascading3.version>3.1.2</cascading3.version>
-    <parquet.format.version>2.8.0</parquet.format.version>
+    <parquet.format.version>2.9.0</parquet.format.version>
     <previous.version>1.12.0</previous.version>
     <thrift.executable>thrift</thrift.executable>
     <format.thrift.executable>${thrift.executable}</format.thrift.executable>