diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7ef0ffe6..2e78b34d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM postgres:15-bookworm
+FROM postgres:16-bookworm
 # this allows the setup to ignore all of the ubuntu OS setup
 # thats not needed for this docker image (Time Zone for example)
 ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive