soapui-5.5.0 log4j security vulnerability

the SoapUI-5.5.0 jar use log4j-1.2.4 which has a security vulnerability:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17571

This issue on GitHub describes the problem:

https://github.com/SmartBear/soapui/issues/504

Could a new version of SoapUI be released with this corrected?