diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 055e6cfaa..36fb9b1d5 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Fixed bugs:
 Other changes:
 --------------
 
-* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.1.0
+* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.2.0
 
 * <loadproperties> has a new encoding attribute.
 
diff --git a/lib/README b/lib/README
index 6a85faad7..5b0d1906c 100644
--- a/lib/README
+++ b/lib/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Please refer to the Ant manual under Installing Ant / Library
 Dependencies for a list of the jar requirements for various optional
 tasks and features.
 
-This directory contains xercesImpl.jar from the 2.1.0 release of
+This directory contains xercesImpl.jar from the 2.2.0 release of
 Apache Xerces.  For more information or newer releases see
 <http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/>.  See the file LICENSE.xerces for
 the terms of distribution.
diff --git a/lib/xercesImpl.jar b/lib/xercesImpl.jar
index a72d3f50a..d41cf97ed 100644
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