diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 60c3ac9..8a6eb1c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ of Jackson components maintained by FasterXML.com
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
-    <jackson.version>2.18.0</jackson.version>
+    <jackson.version>2.18.1-SNAPSHOT</jackson.version>
 
     <!-- 25-Sep-2019, tatu: With Jackson 2.x we will release full patch-level versions
            of annotations BUT they are all identical, content-wise.