diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 789bfd4..de4093a 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt" % "sbt-release" % "1.1.0")
+addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt" % "sbt-release" % "1.4.0")
 addSbtPlugin("ch.epfl.scala" % "sbt-version-policy" % "3.2.0")
 
 // for creating test cases that use a local dynamodb