diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 2d47ab8005d..0ecb26484e6 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'com.h2database:h2-mvstore:2.1.212'
 
     implementation group: 'org.apache.tika', name: 'tika-core', version: '2.4.0'
-    implementation 'com.ibm.icu:icu4j-charset:70.1'
+    implementation 'com.ibm.icu:icu4j-charset:71.1'
 
     // required for reading write-protected PDFs - see https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/942#issuecomment-209252635
     implementation 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on:1.70'