diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6f89c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/target/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 94633c7..f53ba12 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <groupId>org.rometools</groupId>
     <artifactId>rome-fetcher</artifactId>
     <name>rome-fetcher</name>
-    <version>1.2</version>
+    <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <inceptionYear>2004</inceptionYear>
     <description>A well behaved feed fetcher API for ROME</description>
     <url>http://rometools.github.io/rome-fetcher/</url>
@@ -116,47 +116,42 @@
         </plugins>
     </build>
     <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>jdom</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>xerces</groupId>
             <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-            <version>2.4.0</version>
+            <version>2.11.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>rome</groupId>
+            <groupId>org.rometools</groupId>
             <artifactId>rome</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0</version>
+            <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- Required at build time and to use HTTPClientFetcher -->
             <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.1</version>
+            <version>3.1</version>
             <optional />
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- Required at build time and to use HTTPClientFetcher -->
             <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0.4</version>
+            <version>1.1.3</version>
             <optional/>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- Required at build time and to use HTTPClientFetcher -->
             <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-logging-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0.4</version>
+            <version>1.1</version>
             <optional />
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- Only required at compile time for testing -->
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
             <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-            <version>2.3</version>
+            <version>2.5</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -170,7 +165,7 @@
             <!-- Only required at compile time for testing -->
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.2</version>
+            <version>4.11</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>