diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7df151db9..2415d3a6f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents.client5</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpclient5</artifactId>
-        <version>5.2.1</version>
+        <version>5.3-alpha1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
diff --git a/stages/text-extraction/pom.xml b/stages/text-extraction/pom.xml
index db8561590..e86674237 100644
--- a/stages/text-extraction/pom.xml
+++ b/stages/text-extraction/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
       <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
-      <version>3.0.0-RC1</version>
+      <version>3.0.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>