diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index cf14e9ad0..9e91b96ee 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Fixed bugs:
 
 Other changes:
 --------------
+* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces-J 2.6.1
+
 * Translate task logs a debug message specifying the number of files
   that it processed.  Bugzilla Report 13938.
 
diff --git a/lib/README b/lib/README
index 241a12615..2cc7d3226 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 2.6.0 release of
+This directory contains xercesImpl.jar from the 2.6.1 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 7053631cc..81919d3e3 100644
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