diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1af7a95..5371e52 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 		<sonar.organization>camel-tooling</sonar.organization>
 		<sonar.host.url>https://sonarcloud.io</sonar.host.url>
 
-		<version.camel>4.16.0</version.camel>
+		<version.camel>4.18.0</version.camel>
 		<!-- must be aligned with the one from Camel -->
 		<version.jaxb>4.0.0</version.jaxb>
 		<version.junit.pioneer>2.3.0</version.junit.pioneer>