diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8f2882e4a4bb6..0c34e69e90643 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <elasticsearch.version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</elasticsearch.version>
-        <lucene.version>4.8.1</lucene.version>
+        <lucene.version>4.9.0</lucene.version>
         <tests.jvms>1</tests.jvms>
         <tests.shuffle>true</tests.shuffle>
         <tests.output>onerror</tests.output>
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/script/python/PythonScriptSearchTests.java b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/script/python/PythonScriptSearchTests.java
index bbd4c385e4afb..b24bc067e4b4c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/script/python/PythonScriptSearchTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/script/python/PythonScriptSearchTests.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.functionscore.ScoreFunctionBuilders;
 import org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService;
+import org.elasticsearch.script.ScriptService;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.sort.SortOrder;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ElasticsearchIntegrationTest;
 import org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers;
@@ -228,7 +229,8 @@ public void testPythonEmptyParameters() throws Exception {
         index("test", "type1", "1", jsonBuilder().startObject().field("myfield", "foo").endObject());
         refresh();
 
-        client().prepareUpdate("test", "type1", "1").setScriptLang("python").setScript("ctx[\"_source\"][\"myfield\"]=\"bar\"")
+        client().prepareUpdate("test", "type1", "1").setScriptLang("python")
+                .setScript("ctx[\"_source\"][\"myfield\"]=\"bar\"", ScriptService.ScriptType.INLINE)
             .execute().actionGet();
         refresh();