diff --git a/lib/README b/lib/README
index b0dd4d930..241a12615 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 2.5.0 release of
+This directory contains xercesImpl.jar from the 2.6.0 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 5e446b37f..7053631cc 100644
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