diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 6ccaa234c1..7d086b7cbb 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ addSbtPlugin("pl.project13.scala" % "sbt-jmh" % "0.3.7")
 addSbtPlugin("io.spray" % "sbt-boilerplate" % "0.6.1")
 addSbtPlugin("com.lightbend.akka" % "sbt-paradox-akka" % "0.32")
 addSbtPlugin("com.lightbend" % "sbt-whitesource" % "0.1.18")
-addSbtPlugin("de.heikoseeberger" % "sbt-header" % "5.4.0") // for maintenance of copyright file header
+addSbtPlugin("de.heikoseeberger" % "sbt-header" % "5.5.0") // for maintenance of copyright file header
 addSbtPlugin("com.hpe.sbt" % "sbt-pull-request-validator" % "1.0.0")
 addSbtPlugin("net.bzzt" % "sbt-reproducible-builds" % "0.24")
 addSbtPlugin("com.dwijnand" % "sbt-dynver" % "4.0.0")