diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index b8e5fdb10458..44dd1e5fc75d 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # expressions/ grammars
 antlr = "4.13.2"
 # test assertions
-assertj = "3.27.4"
+assertj = "3.27.6"
 # analysis/phonetic/ algorithms, gradle build checksums
 commons-codec = "1.19.0"
 # benchmark/ bzip2 compression