diff --git a/.changeset/few-coins-pump.md b/.changeset/few-coins-pump.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..668bfdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/few-coins-pump.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"changesets": patch
+---
+
+Adapt for breaking changes of versions-common (introduced in #47). 
diff --git a/changesets-maven-plugin/pom.xml b/changesets-maven-plugin/pom.xml
index 5cf1b64..115a68a 100644
--- a/changesets-maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/changesets-maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
             <artifactId>maven-artifact</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
+	    <dependency>
+		    <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
+		    <artifactId>maven-shared-utils</artifactId>
+		    <version>3.2.1</version>
+	    </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-compat</artifactId>
diff --git a/changesets-maven-plugin/src/main/java/se/fortnox/changesets/maven/PomUpdater.java b/changesets-maven-plugin/src/main/java/se/fortnox/changesets/maven/PomUpdater.java
index ac0b9bd..9759d0a 100644
--- a/changesets-maven-plugin/src/main/java/se/fortnox/changesets/maven/PomUpdater.java
+++ b/changesets-maven-plugin/src/main/java/se/fortnox/changesets/maven/PomUpdater.java
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 package se.fortnox.changesets.maven;
 
 import org.codehaus.mojo.versions.api.PomHelper;
-import org.codehaus.mojo.versions.rewriting.ModifiedPomXMLEventReader;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.WriterFactory;
-import org.codehaus.stax2.XMLInputFactory2;
+import org.codehaus.mojo.versions.rewriting.MutableXMLStreamReader;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 
-import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
 import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 
+import static java.util.Optional.ofNullable;
 import static org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger;
 
 /**
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public static void setProjectVersion(File outFile, String newVersion) {
 	 * Set parent project version in a pom file
 	 *
 	 * @param outFile    The pom file to update
-	 * @param newVersion The new version to set the project parent reference to to
+	 * @param newVersion The new version to set the project parent reference to
 	 */
 	public static void setProjectParentVersion(File outFile, String newVersion) {
 		updatePom(outFile, newPom -> {
@@ -56,19 +56,17 @@ public static void setProjectParentVersion(File outFile, String newVersion) {
 		});
 	}
 
-	private static void updatePom(File outFile, Consumer<ModifiedPomXMLEventReader> updater) {
-		try {
-			StringBuilder   input        = PomHelper.readXmlFile(outFile);
-			XMLInputFactory inputFactory = XMLInputFactory2.newInstance();
-			inputFactory.setProperty(XMLInputFactory2.P_PRESERVE_LOCATION, Boolean.TRUE);
-			ModifiedPomXMLEventReader newPom = new ModifiedPomXMLEventReader(input, inputFactory, outFile.getAbsolutePath());
-
+	private static void updatePom(File outFile, Consumer<MutableXMLStreamReader> updater) {
+		try (MutableXMLStreamReader newPom = new MutableXMLStreamReader(outFile.toPath())) {
 			updater.accept(newPom);
-
-			try (Writer writer = WriterFactory.newXmlWriter(outFile)) {
-				IOUtil.copy(input.toString(), writer);
+			if(newPom.isModified()) {
+				try (Writer writer = Files.newBufferedWriter(
+					outFile.toPath(),
+					ofNullable(newPom.getEncoding()).map(Charset::forName).orElse(Charset.defaultCharset()))) {
+					writer.write(newPom.getSource());
+				}
 			}
-		} catch (XMLStreamException | IOException e) {
+		} catch (XMLStreamException | IOException | TransformerException e) {
 			LOG.error("Failed to update {}", outFile, e);
 		}
 	}