diff --git a/dev/appveyor-install-dependencies.ps1 b/dev/appveyor-install-dependencies.ps1
index 7c7bdd623477a..dfb55ff5e6d1f 100644
--- a/dev/appveyor-install-dependencies.ps1
+++ b/dev/appveyor-install-dependencies.ps1
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@ if (!(Test-Path $tools)) {
 # ========================== Maven
 Push-Location $tools
 
-$mavenVer = "3.6.0"
+$mavenVer = "3.6.1"
 Start-FileDownload "https://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/$mavenVer/binaries/apache-maven-$mavenVer-bin.zip" "maven.zip"
 
 # extract
 Invoke-Expression "7z.exe x maven.zip"
 
 # add maven to environment variables
-$env:Path += ";$tools\apache-maven-$mavenVer\bin"
+$env:PATH = "$tools\apache-maven-$mavenVer\bin;" + $env:PATH
 $env:M2_HOME = "$tools\apache-maven-$mavenVer"
 $env:MAVEN_OPTS = "-Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m"
 
diff --git a/docs/building-spark.md b/docs/building-spark.md
index ab8036381922d..fcc6108dd1b1d 100644
--- a/docs/building-spark.md
+++ b/docs/building-spark.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ license: |
 ## Apache Maven
 
 The Maven-based build is the build of reference for Apache Spark.
-Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.6.0 and Java 8.
+Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.6.1 and Java 8.
 Spark requires Scala 2.12; support for Scala 2.11 was removed in Spark 3.0.0.
 
 ### Setting up Maven's Memory Usage
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6de33d45975b8..91661cd3896c6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     <java.version>1.8</java.version>
     <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
-    <maven.version>3.6.0</maven.version>
+    <maven.version>3.6.1</maven.version>
     <sbt.project.name>spark</sbt.project.name>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.16</slf4j.version>
     <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>