diff --git a/deegree-datastores/deegree-tilestores/deegree-tilestore-gdal/pom.xml b/deegree-datastores/deegree-tilestores/deegree-tilestore-gdal/pom.xml
index 3484202ecc..110026c41b 100644
--- a/deegree-datastores/deegree-tilestores/deegree-tilestore-gdal/pom.xml
+++ b/deegree-datastores/deegree-tilestores/deegree-tilestore-gdal/pom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>org.deegree</groupId>
   <artifactId>deegree-tilestore-gdal</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <description>Tile store implementation that accesses raster files via GDAL (http://www.gdal.org)</description>  
diff --git a/deegree-tools/deegree-tools-gml/pom.xml b/deegree-tools/deegree-tools-gml/pom.xml
index 97f724f562..2e72c19b35 100755
--- a/deegree-tools/deegree-tools-gml/pom.xml
+++ b/deegree-tools/deegree-tools-gml/pom.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>org.deegree</groupId>
   <artifactId>deegree-tools-gml</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e75dc2dac9..5ad92887cf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
-        <version>1.7</version>
+        <version>1.16.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
diff --git a/uncoupled/orphaned-after-3.2/pom.xml b/uncoupled/orphaned-after-3.2/pom.xml
index 120aeeb91a..8f5d37e4ff 100644
--- a/uncoupled/orphaned-after-3.2/pom.xml
+++ b/uncoupled/orphaned-after-3.2/pom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>org.deegree</groupId>
   <artifactId>orphaned-after-3.2</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <version>3.2-orphaned</version>