diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index d264034..17f1622 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-0.60.2 2021-12-17
+0.60.2 2022-01-03
+    - [security] More log4j updates (diewald)
 
 0.60.1 2021-12-17
     - [feature] Added vc loading from classpath (margaretha)
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 91fbc14..166b33a 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 **Authors**: [Nils Diewald](https://www.nils-diewald.de/),
 	     [Eliza Margaretha](https://perso.ids-mannheim.de/seiten/margaretha.html)
 
-Copyright (c) 2013-2021, [IDS Mannheim](https://www.ids-mannheim.de/), Germany
+Copyright (c) 2013-2022, [IDS Mannheim](https://www.ids-mannheim.de/), Germany
 
 Krill is developed as part of the [KorAP](https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/)
 Corpus Analysis Platform at the Institute for German Language
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0f43a81..efa4ada 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     <java.version>1.8</java.version>
     <jersey.version>3.0.3</jersey.version>
     <jackson.version>[2.12.4,)</jackson.version>
-    <log4j.version>[2.16.0,)</log4j.version>
+    <log4j.version>[2.17.1,)</log4j.version>
     <lucene.version>5.0.0</lucene.version>
     <cobertura.version>2.7</cobertura.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>