diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index 43335f03bed..36f5689d4ba 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.graalvm.sdk</groupId>
       <artifactId>nativeimage</artifactId>
-      <version>${graal-sdk-nativeimage.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>