diff --git a/gradle/dependencies.gradle b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
index 130b6a309de..bdcc01471cd 100644
--- a/gradle/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ versions += [
   // PowerMock 1.x doesn't support Java 9, so use PowerMock 2.0.0 beta
   powermock: "2.0.0-beta.5",
   reflections: "0.9.11",
-  rocksDB: "5.7.3",
+  rocksDB: "5.13.4",
   scalatest: "3.0.5",
   scoverage: "1.3.1",
   slf4j: "1.7.25",
diff --git a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java
index e858ac07921..17d03cc1da3 100644
--- a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java
+++ b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java
@@ -248,11 +248,6 @@ public class RocksDBStore implements KeyValueStore<Bytes, byte[]> {
                 } catch (final RocksDBException e) {
                     throw new ProcessorStateException("Error while range compacting during restoring  store " + this.name, e);
                 }
-
-                // we need to re-open with the old num.levels again, this is a workaround
-                // until https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2740 is merged in rocksdb
-                close();
-                openDB(internalProcessorContext);
             }
         }