diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3593fb664d..3dc873e6ec 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
     <japicmp.skip>false</japicmp.skip>
     <!-- 3.26.0 is the last JDK8-compatible version -->
     <!-- 3.27.0 says "class file has wrong version 55.0, should be 52.0" -->
-    <ecj.version>3.26.0</ecj.version>
+    <ecj.version>3.44.0</ecj.version>
     <!-- JaCoCo on Java 8 is different from other versions. On JDK9+ there is a profile -->
     <!-- JaCoCo: Don't make code coverage worse than: -->
     <commons.jacoco.haltOnFailure>true</commons.jacoco.haltOnFailure>