diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bcb35c6c3..380013b5a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
 		<sciview.version>0.4.0</sciview.version>
 		<smile.version>4.4.0</smile.version>
 		<smile-base.version>${smile.version}</smile-base.version>
-		<smile-core.version>${smile.version}</smile-core.version>
+		<smile-core.version>5.2.1</smile-core.version>
 		<smile-plot.version>${smile.version}</smile-plot.version>
 
 		<!-- NB: Deploy releases to the SciJava Maven repository. -->