diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 9dd979c9644..85ceeb13bd6 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ subprojects {
         //  * Temporarily comment out "-Werror" elsewhere in this file
         //  * Repeatedly run `./gradlew clean compileJava` and fix all errors
         //  * Uncomment "-Werror"
-        ext.errorproneVersion = '2.11.0'
+        ext.errorproneVersion = '2.17.0'
         errorprone group: 'com.google.errorprone', name: 'error_prone_core', version: errorproneVersion
 
         // TODO: it's a bug that annotatedlib:guava requires the error_prone_annotations dependency.