diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 8e76f47db..ee0c1e978 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changes from Ant 1.10.1 TO Ant 1.10.2
 =====================================
 
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * updated the dependency of BCEL to 6.0.
+   Bugzilla Report 61196
+
 Fixed bugs:
 -----------
 
@@ -8,7 +14,6 @@ Fixed bugs:
    value.
    Bugzilla Report 60767
 
-
  * bootstrapping Ant on Windows failed
    Bugzilla Report 61027
 
diff --git a/fetch.xml b/fetch.xml
index f8e0bf9e9..4ba35480c 100644
--- a/fetch.xml
+++ b/fetch.xml
@@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ Set -Ddest=LOCATION on the command line
   <target name="bcel"
     description="load bcel libraries"
     depends="init">
-    <f2 project="bcel" />
+    <copy todir="${dest.dir}">
+      <url url="${m2.url}/org/apache/bcel/bcel/${bcel.version}/bcel-${bcel.version}.jar"/>
+      <flattenmapper/>
+    </copy>
   </target>
 
   <target name="jdepend"
diff --git a/lib/libraries.properties b/lib/libraries.properties
index 21961f31b..6b90fdbcd 100644
--- a/lib/libraries.properties
+++ b/lib/libraries.properties
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ m2.repo=http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/
 #when a specific dependency forces them to be out-of-order
 ivy.version=2.4.0
 antlr.version=2.7.7
-bcel.version=5.1
+bcel.version=6.0
 bsf.version=2.4.0
 bsh.version=2.0b4
 bsh-core.version=${bsh.version}
diff --git a/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml b/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml
index c27da1282..40cdcea0a 100644
--- a/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml
+++ b/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>bcel</groupId>
+      <groupId>org.apache.bcel</groupId>
       <artifactId>bcel</artifactId>
-      <version>5.1</version>
+      <version>6.0</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>