diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 061eafb63bc..9e3ae8a6279 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
         <junit.vintage.version>5.3.1</junit.vintage.version>
         <junit.platform.version>1.3.1</junit.platform.version>
         <mockito.version>2.22.0</mockito.version>
+        <jacoco.version>0.8.2</jacoco.version>
     </properties>
 
     <repositories>
@@ -418,11 +419,6 @@
             <version>2.4.0</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.7.5.201505241946</version>
-        </dependency>
         <!-- Added specific versionf of SLF4J jars; otherwise we end up with
         conflicting versions of slf4j-api and slf4j-log4j12, loaded as
         dependencies for different packages; which was causing some incompatibility
@@ -660,7 +656,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>0.7.5.201505241946</version>
+                <version>${jacoco.version}</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <destfile>${basedir}/target/coverage-reports/jacoco-unit.exec</destfile>
                     <datafile>${basedir}/target/coverage-reports/jacoco-unit.exec</datafile>
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/authorization/providers/oauth2/impl/GitHubOAuth2AP.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/authorization/providers/oauth2/impl/GitHubOAuth2AP.java
index f230522a824..895fe80738e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/authorization/providers/oauth2/impl/GitHubOAuth2AP.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/authorization/providers/oauth2/impl/GitHubOAuth2AP.java
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 import com.github.scribejava.apis.GitHubApi;
 import com.github.scribejava.core.builder.api.BaseApi;
-import edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.Collections;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.authorization.AuthenticatedUserDisplayInfo;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.authorization.providers.oauth2.AbstractOAuth2AuthenticationProvider;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.authorization.providers.shib.ShibUserNameFields;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.authorization.providers.shib.ShibUtil;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.util.BundleUtil;
 import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import javax.json.Json;
 import javax.json.JsonObject;
 import javax.json.JsonReader;
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/client/oai/OaiHandler.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/client/oai/OaiHandler.java
index 0fc38a27011..e4642fe0a4d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/client/oai/OaiHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/client/oai/OaiHandler.java
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
@@ -30,7 +32,6 @@
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
  *
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/server/web/servlet/OAIServlet.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/server/web/servlet/OAIServlet.java
index 447d97ee80a..05d34250fd6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/server/web/servlet/OAIServlet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/harvest/server/web/servlet/OAIServlet.java
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.harvest.server.xoai.XlistRecords;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.settings.SettingsServiceBean;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.util.SystemConfig;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -57,7 +59,6 @@
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
  *
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java
index a79072d18ae..3209a7cac0d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.util.json;
 
-import edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.Collections;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.ControlledVocabularyValue;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DataFile;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DataFileTag;
@@ -41,20 +40,11 @@
 import static edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.util.json.NullSafeJsonBuilder.jsonObjectBuilder;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.workflow.Workflow;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.workflow.step.WorkflowStepData;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Set;
+
+import java.util.*;
 import javax.json.Json;
 import javax.json.JsonArrayBuilder;
 import javax.json.JsonObjectBuilder;
-import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.TreeSet;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.Deque;
-import java.util.EnumSet;
-import java.util.LinkedList;
-import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.function.BiConsumer;
 import java.util.function.BinaryOperator;
 import java.util.function.Function;
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/dataaccess/StorageIOTest.java b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/dataaccess/StorageIOTest.java
index f85b59053f9..9f6f8236dce 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/dataaccess/StorageIOTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/dataaccess/StorageIOTest.java
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
  */
 package edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.dataaccess;
 
-import edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.Arrays;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DataFile;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.Dataset;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.Dataverse;
@@ -18,6 +17,7 @@
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
 import java.nio.channels.Channel;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Header;
 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/BriefJsonPrinterTest.java b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/BriefJsonPrinterTest.java
index 69df80b1d4d..dc36b197c55 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/BriefJsonPrinterTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/BriefJsonPrinterTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.util.json;
 
-import edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.Collections;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.Dataset;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DatasetField;
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DatasetFieldConstant;
@@ -12,6 +11,9 @@
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.workflow.Workflow;
 import javax.json.JsonObject;
 import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/validation/PasswordValidatorTest.java b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/validation/PasswordValidatorTest.java
index ff1209862c4..27a88260870 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/validation/PasswordValidatorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/validation/PasswordValidatorTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.validation;
 
-import edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.Arrays;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
@@ -10,6 +9,7 @@
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;