diff --git a/scripts/japicmp.sh b/scripts/japicmp.sh
index ad8aa84e11..cbb2907b2d 100755
--- a/scripts/japicmp.sh
+++ b/scripts/japicmp.sh
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ XSLTDOC
 MVN_REPO="$(mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=settings.localRepository -q -DforceStdout)"
 
 JAVA_VERSION=$(./gradlew --no-daemon -version | grep ^JVM: | awk -F\. '{gsub(/^JVM:[ \t]*/,"",$1); print $1"."$2}')
-JAPICMP_VERSION="0.16.0"
+JAPICMP_VERSION="0.20.0"
 JAR_DIR="${MVN_REPO}/com/github/siom79/japicmp/japicmp/${JAPICMP_VERSION}"
 JAR_FILE="${JAR_DIR}/japicmp-${JAPICMP_VERSION}-jar-with-dependencies.jar"
 if [ ! -f "${JAR_FILE}" ]; then