diff --git a/bindings/java/ivy.xml b/bindings/java/ivy.xml
index af9f85d09f8d67a0bc96cab2f3647f211098b736..67518a6566d0eba79da9a9bb86e28dd94ead860e 100644
--- a/bindings/java/ivy.xml
+++ b/bindings/java/ivy.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
           debian/sleuthkit-java.install so that it gets packaged correctly on Linux -->
 		<dependency org="org.xerial" name="sqlite-jdbc" rev="3.25.2"/>
 
-		<dependency org="org.postgresql" name="postgresql" rev="9.4.1211.jre7" >
+		<dependency org="org.postgresql" name="postgresql" rev="42.2.18" >
 			<artifact name="postgresql" type="jar" />
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency org="com.mchange" name="c3p0" rev="0.9.5" />
diff --git a/bindings/java/nbproject/project.xml b/bindings/java/nbproject/project.xml
index 58ab53b9b262c0a5a2414f1bbbefc6a354627323..57a2b6befa984bdfa69a539c68c6200745375049 100755
--- a/bindings/java/nbproject/project.xml
+++ b/bindings/java/nbproject/project.xml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
         <java-data xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/freeform-project-java/4">
             <compilation-unit>
                 <package-root>src</package-root>
-                <classpath mode="compile">lib;lib/diffutils-1.2.1.jar;lib/junit-4.8.2.jar;lib/postgresql-9.4-1201.jdbc41.jar;lib/c3p0-0.9.5.jar;lib/mchange-commons-java-0.2.9.jar;lib/c3p0-0.9.5-sources.jar;lib/c3p0-0.9.5-javadoc.jar;lib/joda-time-2.4.jar;lib/commons-lang3-3.0.jar;lib/guava-19.0.jar;lib/SparseBitSet-1.1.jar;lib/gson-2.8.5.jar;lib/commons-validator-1.6.jar</classpath>
+                <classpath mode="compile">lib;lib/diffutils-1.2.1.jar;lib/junit-4.8.2.jar;lib/postgresql-42.2.18.jar;lib/c3p0-0.9.5.jar;lib/mchange-commons-java-0.2.9.jar;lib/c3p0-0.9.5-sources.jar;lib/c3p0-0.9.5-javadoc.jar;lib/joda-time-2.4.jar;lib/commons-lang3-3.0.jar;lib/guava-19.0.jar;lib/SparseBitSet-1.1.jar;lib/gson-2.8.5.jar;lib/commons-validator-1.6.jar</classpath>
                 <built-to>build</built-to>
                 <source-level>1.8</source-level>
             </compilation-unit>