diff --git a/features/pom.xml b/features/pom.xml
index 96291ad9..2e984403 100644
--- a/features/pom.xml
+++ b/features/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor 
     license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional 
     information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <topDirectoryLocation>../..</topDirectoryLocation>
-        <karaf.version>4.0.4</karaf.version>
+        <karaf.version>4.4.7</karaf.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>