diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 43db0f0..7e69be7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
   <groupId>monasca</groupId>
   <artifactId>monasca-thresh-base</artifactId>
-  <version>2.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <url>http://github.com/openstack/monasca-thresh</url>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
diff --git a/thresh/pom.xml b/thresh/pom.xml
index 99fb362..161ab7f 100644
--- a/thresh/pom.xml
+++ b/thresh/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <groupId>monasca</groupId>
     <artifactId>monasca-thresh</artifactId>
-    <version>2.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <url>http://github.com/openstack/monasca-thresh</url>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
@@ -123,11 +123,6 @@
             <artifactId>monasca-common-kafka</artifactId>
             <version>${mon.common.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
-            <version>5.1.36</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.drizzle.jdbc</groupId>
             <artifactId>drizzle-jdbc</artifactId>