diff --git a/fling/pom.xml b/fling/pom.xml
index d21fdcc..f26d69f 100644
--- a/fling/pom.xml
+++ b/fling/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   <packaging>bundle</packaging>
 
   <name>Apache Sling Fling Sample</name>
-  <description>sample using Sling Models, Query and Thymeleaf</description>
+  <description>sample using Sling Commons Messaging, Sling Models, Sling Query, Sling Validation and Sling Scripting Thymeleaf</description>
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
       <artifactId>org.apache.sling.jcr.base</artifactId>
-      <version>2.4.0</version>
+      <version>3.0.0</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-sling-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>2.1.8</version>
+          <version>2.2.0</version>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.1</version>
+        <version>3.6.1</version>
         <configuration>
           <source>1.8</source>
           <target>1.8</target>