diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 57b8228..518922a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
   </distributionManagement>
 
   <properties>
-    <aerospike-driver.version>4.4.18</aerospike-driver.version>
+    <aerospike-driver.version>7.0.0</aerospike-driver.version>
     <vertx.version>3.9.2</vertx.version>
     <netty.version>4.1.49.Final</netty.version>
     <guice.version>4.2.2</guice.version>