diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index de4a5fa43..83e96151c 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Other changes:
 
 * MailLogger now sets the Date header correctly.
 
-* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.2.1
+* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.3.0
 
 * <style> has a new attribute reuseloadedstylesheet to work around a
   bug in widespread Xalan versions.
diff --git a/lib/README b/lib/README
index 24762b9fd..201646334 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 2.2.1 release of
+This directory contains xercesImpl.jar from the 2.3.0 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
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diff --git a/lib/xmlParserAPIs.jar b/lib/xmlParserAPIs.jar
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