diff --git a/app-toolkit/dependencies.gradle b/app-toolkit/dependencies.gradle
index 083325b..cb68089 100644
--- a/app-toolkit/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/app-toolkit/dependencies.gradle
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
 ffVersions.reactivestreams = "1.0.0"
 // this Xerial version is newer than we want but we need it to fix
 // https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/issues/97
-ffVersions.xerial = "3.16.1"
+// https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/issues/267
+ffVersions.xerial = "3.20.1"
 ffVersions.antlr = "4.5.3"
 ffVersions.commons_codec = "1.10"
 ffVersions.gson = "2.8.0"