diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index da5ea78..a2c636c 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ The following REPL session should give an idea about the capabilities and usage
 
 Load the package into your namespace:
 
-    user=> (ns user (:use feedparser-clj.core) (:require [clojure.contrib.string :as string]))
+    user=> (ns user (:use feedparser-clj.core) (:require [clojure.string :as string]))
 
 Retrieve and parse a feed: 
 
-    user=> (def f (parse-feed "http://gregheartsfield.com/atom.xml"))
+    user=> (def f (parse-feed "https://gregheartsfield.com/atom.xml"))
 
 `parse-feed` also accepts a java.io.InputStream for reading from a file or other sources (see [clojure.java.io/input-stream](http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.java.io-api.html#clojure.java.io/input-stream)):
 
@@ -117,4 +117,4 @@ Distributed under the BSD-3 License.
 Copyright
 ---------
 
-Copyright (C) 2010 Greg Heartsfield
\ No newline at end of file
+Copyright (C) 2010 Greg Heartsfield
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 8035fe9..5f41c57 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 (defproject org.clojars.scsibug/feedparser-clj "0.5.0"
   :description "Parse RSS/Atom feeds with a simple, clojure-friendly API."
-  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.6.0"]
-		 [org.jdom/jdom "2.0.2"]
-		 [net.java.dev.rome/rome "1.0.0"]]
+  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0"]
+		 [org.jdom/jdom2 "2.0.5"]
+		 [com.rometools/rome "1.6.0"]]
   :main feedparser-clj.core)
diff --git a/src/feedparser_clj/core.clj b/src/feedparser_clj/core.clj
index 56a810d..77d9555 100644
--- a/src/feedparser_clj/core.clj
+++ b/src/feedparser_clj/core.clj
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 (ns feedparser-clj.core
-  (:import (com.sun.syndication.io SyndFeedInput XmlReader)
+  (:import (com.rometools.rome.io SyndFeedInput XmlReader)
            (java.net URL)
            (java.io InputStreamReader)
-           (com.sun.syndication.feed.synd SyndFeed))
+           (com.rometools.rome.feed.synd SyndFeed))
   (:gen-class))