diff --git a/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin-quickstart/pom.xml b/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin-quickstart/pom.xml
index c9200ef93c..865d9a9736 100644
--- a/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin-quickstart/pom.xml
+++ b/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin-quickstart/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <quarkus.platform.version>999-SNAPSHOT</quarkus.platform.version>
         <surefire-plugin.version>3.0.0-M7</surefire-plugin.version>
         <compiler-plugin.version>3.8.1</compiler-plugin.version>
-        <kotlin.version>1.7.20</kotlin.version>
+        <kotlin.version>1.9.0</kotlin.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>