diff --git a/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile b/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile
index a032d576..262b0eeb 100644
--- a/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ USER root
 # Default values can be overridden at build time
 # (ARGS are in lower case to distinguish them from ENV)
 # Check https://julialang.org/downloads/
-ARG julia_version="1.8.0"
+ARG julia_version="1.8.1"
 
 # R pre-requisites
 RUN apt-get update --yes && \