diff --git a/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/migration/AlterForeignKey.java b/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/migration/AlterForeignKey.java
index 4286b3132..ed0ccf000 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/migration/AlterForeignKey.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/migration/AlterForeignKey.java
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ public class AlterForeignKey {
   protected String name;
   @XmlAttribute(name = "columnNames", required = true)
   protected String columnNames;
-  @XmlAttribute(name = "refColumnNames", required = true)
+  @XmlAttribute(name = "refColumnNames")
   protected String refColumnNames;
-  @XmlAttribute(name = "refTableName", required = true)
+  @XmlAttribute(name = "refTableName")
   protected String refTableName;
   @XmlAttribute(name = "indexName")
   protected String indexName;
diff --git a/src/main/resources/ebean-dbmigration-1.0.xsd b/src/main/resources/ebean-dbmigration-1.0.xsd
index ade3fc9a7..58959aa46 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/ebean-dbmigration-1.0.xsd
+++ b/src/main/resources/ebean-dbmigration-1.0.xsd
@@ -141,6 +141,19 @@
     </xsd:complexType>
   </xsd:element>
 
+  <xsd:element name="alterForeignKey">
+    <xsd:complexType>
+      <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
+      <xsd:attribute name="columnNames" type="xsd:string"/>
+      <xsd:attribute name="refColumnNames" type="xsd:string"/>
+      <xsd:attribute name="refTableName" type="xsd:string"/>
+      <xsd:attribute name="indexName" type="xsd:string"/>
+      <xsd:attribute name="tableName" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
+      <xsd:attribute name="onDelete" type="xsd:string"/>
+      <xsd:attribute name="onUpdate" type="xsd:string"/>
+    </xsd:complexType>
+  </xsd:element>
+
   <xsd:element name="dropTable">
     <xsd:complexType>
       <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
@@ -300,6 +313,7 @@
 
       <xsd:element ref="addHistoryTable" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
       <xsd:element ref="dropHistoryTable" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
+      <xsd:element ref="alterForeignKey" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
 
       <xsd:element ref="addColumn" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
       <xsd:element ref="dropColumn" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
diff --git a/src/test/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/model/ModelContainerTest.java b/src/test/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/model/ModelContainerTest.java
index fc37f02da..ae05f368b 100644
--- a/src/test/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/model/ModelContainerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/model/ModelContainerTest.java
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ public class ModelContainerTest {
     assertThat(container.getPendingDrops()).isEmpty();
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void apply_alterForeignKey() {
+    ModelContainer container = new ModelContainer();
+    container.apply(mig("4.0__alterForeignKey.model.xml"), ver("4.0"));
+    assertThat(container.getPendingDrops()).isEmpty();
+  }
+
   private ModelContainer container_2_1() {
     ModelContainer container = new ModelContainer();
     container.apply(mig("2.0.model.xml"), ver("2.0"));
diff --git a/src/test/resources/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/model/4.0__alterForeignKey.model.xml b/src/test/resources/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/model/4.0__alterForeignKey.model.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2581ec698
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/io/ebeaninternal/dbmigration/model/4.0__alterForeignKey.model.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<migration xmlns="http://ebean-orm.github.io/xml/ns/dbmigration">
+  <changeSet type="apply">
+    <createTable name="document" withHistory="true" pkName="pk_document">
+      <column name="id" type="bigint" primaryKey="true" references="document_draft.id" foreignKeyName="fk_document_id"/>
+      <column name="title" type="varchar(255)" unique="uq_document_title"/>
+      <column name="body" type="varchar(255)"/>
+      <column name="zing" type="varchar(255)"/>
+      <column name="zong" type="varchar(255)"/>
+      <column name="version" type="bigint" notnull="true"/>
+      <column name="when_created" type="timestamp" notnull="true"/>
+      <column name="when_modified" type="timestamp" notnull="true"/>
+    </createTable>
+    <alterForeignKey name="fk_document_id" columnNames="DROP FOREIGN KEY" tableName="document"/>
+  </changeSet>
+</migration>