diff --git a/Spark1.x/Spark-kafka-streaming-1.6/pom.xml b/Spark1.x/Spark-kafka-streaming-1.6/pom.xml
index 041b7dd..199cc88 100644
--- a/Spark1.x/Spark-kafka-streaming-1.6/pom.xml
+++ b/Spark1.x/Spark-kafka-streaming-1.6/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   <name>Spark1 Streaming connector for Kafka 0.10 examples</name>
 
   <properties>
-    <spark.version>1.6.3</spark.version>
+    <spark.version>2.2.3</spark.version>
     <scala.version>2.10.5</scala.version>
     <kafka.version>1.0.0.2.6.5.0-292</kafka.version>
     <scala.binary.version>2.10</scala.binary.version>