diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 06c0e3921ebc1..c6a9dc5432175 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Alternatively, use the `allDeps` or `allDepInsight` tasks for recursively iterat
 These take the same arguments as the builtin variants.
 
 ### Determining if any dependencies could be updated ###
-    ./gradlew dependencyUpdates
+    ./gradlew dependencyUpdates --no-parallel
 
 ### Common build options ###
 
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 1b4444b960813..5b08bbf106ec7 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ buildscript {
 }
 
 plugins {
-  id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.52.0'
+  id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.53.0'
   id 'idea'
   id 'jacoco'
   id 'java-library'