diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 897c079..0ae72e7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>gr.skroutz</groupId>
 	<artifactId>elasticsearch-analysis-greeklish</artifactId>
-	<version>7.7.0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>7.8.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<description>Greeklish converter for ElasticSearch</description>
 	<inceptionYear>2012</inceptionYear>
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@
 
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-		<elasticsearch.version>7.7.0</elasticsearch.version>
-		<lucene.version>8.5.1</lucene.version>
+		<elasticsearch.version>7.8.0</elasticsearch.version>
 		<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
 		<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
 	</properties>
@@ -76,13 +75,6 @@
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
-			<artifactId>lucene-core</artifactId>
-			<version>${lucene.version}</version>
-			<scope>compile</scope>
-		</dependency>
-
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.elasticsearch.test</groupId>
 			<artifactId>framework</artifactId>
@@ -94,6 +86,7 @@
 			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
 			<version>3.1</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
@@ -116,13 +109,6 @@
 			<version>6.8.8</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
-
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
-			<artifactId>hamcrest</artifactId>
-			<version>2.1</version>
-			<scope>compile</scope>
-		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
   <build>