diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f65f7ffb57..a8feb7a90d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ limitations under the License.
     <compileSource.1.8>1.8</compileSource.1.8>
 
     <!-- core dependency versions -->
-    <bigtable.version>1.20.0</bigtable.version>
+    <bigtable.version>1.20.1</bigtable.version>
     <dropwizard.metrics.version>3.2.6</dropwizard.metrics.version>
     <!--  keeping at this version to align with hbase-->
     <slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>