diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index 6f94916f6..65793bca7 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>templating-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.0</version>
+        <version>3.0.0</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>generate-version-class</id>