diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index c5b581ff6..19f272992 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/bcprov-jdk15-1.46.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/poi-3.17.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/poi-scratchpad-3.17.jar"/>
-	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/commons-io-2.5.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/commons-io-2.6.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/slf4j-api-1.7.24.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/chardet.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jetty-client-9.4.8.v20171121.jar"/>
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 13449d1bd..ec3a5e2d1 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-codec-1.10.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-compress-1.15.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-fileupload-1.3.3.jar" />
-    	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-io-2.5.jar" />
+    	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-io-2.6.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-jxpath-1.3.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-lang-2.6.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-logging-1.2.jar" />
diff --git a/lib/commons-io-2.5.jar b/lib/commons-io-2.5.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 123491827..000000000
Binary files a/lib/commons-io-2.5.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/lib/commons-io-2.5.License b/lib/commons-io-2.6.License
similarity index 100%
rename from lib/commons-io-2.5.License
rename to lib/commons-io-2.6.License
diff --git a/lib/commons-io-2.6.jar b/lib/commons-io-2.6.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..00556b119
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/commons-io-2.6.jar differ
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 28542df1e..ba8aa30a3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.5</version>
+            <version>2.6</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
         </dependency>        
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-jxpath</groupId>