diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index f4bcb417e6..db8016e8c3 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // bundle up Scala applications into packaging formats such as Docker,
 // GraalVM native-image, executable JARs etc
-addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-native-packager" % "1.8.0")
+addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-native-packager" % "1.8.1")
 
 // collect code coverage when executing tests
 addSbtPlugin("org.scoverage" % "sbt-scoverage" % "1.6.1")