diff --git a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-age-recogniser/pom.xml b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-age-recogniser/pom.xml
index ecb1610d25..5be50042e2 100644
--- a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-age-recogniser/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-age-recogniser/pom.xml
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
       </dependency>
 
       <!-- avoid conflicts because of age-predictor-api -->
+      <!-- can't update zookeeper higher than 3.4.14 without getting dependency convergence errors -->
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
           <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@
       <dependency>
           <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
           <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-          <version>3.8.0.Final</version>
+          <version>3.10.6.Final</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>