diff --git a/apache-httpclient/pom.xml b/apache-httpclient/pom.xml
index 3b178d4df8..f671c93cfc 100644
--- a/apache-httpclient/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-httpclient/pom.xml
@@ -63,11 +63,6 @@
             <version>${wiremock.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-            <version>${httpclient.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -84,10 +79,9 @@
         <mockserver.version>5.6.1</mockserver.version>
         <wiremock.version>3.3.1</wiremock.version>
         <!-- http client & core 5 -->
-        <httpcore5.version>5.2</httpcore5.version>
-        <httpclient5.version>5.2</httpclient5.version>
-        <httpclient5-fluent.version>5.2</httpclient5-fluent.version>
-        <httpclient.version>4.5.14</httpclient.version>
+        <httpcore5.version>5.2.2</httpcore5.version>
+        <httpclient5.version>5.2.2</httpclient5.version>
+        <httpclient5-fluent.version>5.2.2</httpclient5-fluent.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/apache-httpclient/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/HttpAsyncClientLiveTest.java b/apache-httpclient/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/HttpAsyncClientLiveTest.java
index 50cf1b7a64..7b818f871a 100644
--- a/apache-httpclient/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/HttpAsyncClientLiveTest.java
+++ b/apache-httpclient/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/HttpAsyncClientLiveTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.nio.PoolingAsyncClientConnectionManagerBu
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.routing.DefaultProxyRoutePlanner;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.protocol.HttpClientContext;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.ClientTlsStrategyBuilder;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpHost;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.nio.ssl.TlsStrategy;
@@ -33,7 +34,6 @@ import org.apache.hc.core5.http.protocol.HttpContext;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.reactor.IOReactorConfig;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.ssl.SSLContexts;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.ssl.TrustStrategy;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ class HttpAsyncClientLiveTest extends GetRequestMockServer {
             .build();
 
         final TlsStrategy tlsStrategy = ClientTlsStrategyBuilder.create()
-            .setHostnameVerifier(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER)
+            .setHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
             .setSslContext(sslContext)
             .build();