diff --git a/pmd-dist/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/it/BinaryDistributionIT.java b/pmd-dist/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/it/BinaryDistributionIT.java
index 4ae2bc60f9..4e7ca4754d 100644
--- a/pmd-dist/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/it/BinaryDistributionIT.java
+++ b/pmd-dist/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/it/BinaryDistributionIT.java
@@ -65,9 +65,7 @@ public class BinaryDistributionIT extends AbstractBinaryDistributionTest {
         ExecutionResult result;
 
         result = PMDExecutor.runPMD(tempDir, "-h");
-
-        // note: the language "text" is provided by pmd-designer
-        result.assertExecutionResult(0, "apex, ecmascript, java, jsp, modelica, plsql, pom, scala, swift, text, vf, vm, wsdl, xml, xsl");
+        result.assertExecutionResult(0, "apex, ecmascript, java, jsp, modelica, plsql, pom, scala, swift, vf, vm, wsdl, xml, xsl");
 
         result = PMDExecutor.runPMDRules(tempDir, srcDir, "src/test/resources/rulesets/sample-ruleset.xml");
         result.assertExecutionResult(4, "", "JumbledIncrementer.java:8:");
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 08f928262a..5dbf05ada1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PLSQL, Python, Ruby, Salesforce.com Apex, Scala, Swift a
 
         <pmd.build-tools.version>5</pmd.build-tools.version>
 
-        <pmd-designer.version>6.19.0</pmd-designer.version>
+        <pmd-designer.version>6.21.0</pmd-designer.version>
         <javacc.jar>${settings.localRepository}/net/java/dev/javacc/javacc/${javacc.version}/javacc-${javacc.version}.jar</javacc.jar>
     </properties>