diff --git a/project/Dependencies.scala b/project/Dependencies.scala
index eebe9c24..faa472e3 100644
--- a/project/Dependencies.scala
+++ b/project/Dependencies.scala
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ object Dependencies {
 
   val nettyVersion    = "4.1.131.Final" // Keep in sync with the netty version netty-reactive-streams uses (see below)
   val asyncHttpClient = Seq(
-    ("org.asynchttpclient" % "async-http-client" % "2.12.4") // 2.12.x comes with outdated netty-reactive-streams and netty, so we ...
+    ("org.asynchttpclient" % "async-http-client" % "3.0.7") // 2.12.x comes with outdated netty-reactive-streams and netty, so we ...
       .exclude("com.typesafe.netty", "netty-reactive-streams") // ... exclude netty-reactive-streams and ...
       .excludeAll(ExclusionRule("io.netty")), // ... also exclude all netty dependencies and pull in ...
     "com.typesafe.netty" % "netty-reactive-streams" % "2.0.17", // ... a new netty-reactive-streams (ahc v3 will drop it btw) ...