diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cfe26f9..eb25312 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ Even more queries can be found [here](https://colab.research.google.com/github/R
 
 # Latest updates
 
+## Version 2.1.0
+- Upgraded to the RumbleDB 2.1.0 underlying Java implementation. More details on new features (including enhanced XML/XQuery 3.1 support) at https://github.com/RumbleDB/rumble/releases/tag/v2.1.0
+
 ## Version 2.0.9
 - Solve an issue under Windows that caused the error "Java gateway process exited before sending its port number.".
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2ce12ed..98640e0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "jsoniq"
-version = "2.0.9"
+version = "2.1.0"
 description = "Python edition of RumbleDB, a JSONiq engine"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
-    "pyspark==4.0.1",
+    "pyspark==4.0.2",
     "pandas>=2.2",
     "delta-spark==4.0"
 ]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 97985f6..f57f203 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-pyspark==4.0.1
+pyspark==4.0.2
 pandas==2.3
diff --git a/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.0.0.jar b/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.0.0.jar
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diff --git a/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.0.8.jar b/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.0.8.jar
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diff --git a/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.0.jar b/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.0.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48640e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.0.jar
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:2b33dc4e50d7555e3d0c1f3b5bfa9504c631f539e01759c8f8e29b6188d9f001
+size 79567902
diff --git a/src/jsoniq/session.py b/src/jsoniq/session.py
index ec5e9f0..1931425 100644
--- a/src/jsoniq/session.py
+++ b/src/jsoniq/session.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import pandas as pd
 import importlib.resources as pkg_resources
 
-with pkg_resources.path("jsoniq.jars", "rumbledb-2.0.8.jar") as jar_path:
+with pkg_resources.path("jsoniq.jars", "rumbledb-2.1.0.jar") as jar_path:
     if (os.name == 'nt'):
         jar_path_str = str(jar_path)
     else: