diff --git a/akka-persistence/pom.xml b/akka-persistence/pom.xml
index 5447087e68..10f90035b9 100644
--- a/akka-persistence/pom.xml
+++ b/akka-persistence/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.mongodb</groupId>
       <artifactId>mongo</artifactId>
-      <version>0.6</version>
+      <version>1.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <!-- For Cassandra -->
diff --git a/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/MongoStorageBackend.scala b/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/MongoStorageBackend.scala
index 62169199aa..ae8d1ecb7a 100644
--- a/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/MongoStorageBackend.scala
+++ b/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/MongoStorageBackend.scala
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ private[akka] object MongoStorageBackend extends
   val MONGODB_SERVER_DBNAME = config.getString("akka.storage.mongodb.dbname", "testdb")
   val MONGODB_SERVER_PORT = config.getInt("akka.storage.mongodb.port", 27017)
 
-  val db = new Mongo(MONGODB_SERVER_HOSTNAME, MONGODB_SERVER_PORT, MONGODB_SERVER_DBNAME)
-  val coll = db.getCollection(COLLECTION)
+  val db = new Mongo(MONGODB_SERVER_HOSTNAME, MONGODB_SERVER_PORT)
+  val coll = db.getDB(MONGODB_SERVER_DBNAME).getCollection(COLLECTION)
 
   // FIXME: make this pluggable
   private[this] val serializer = SJSON
diff --git a/embedded-repo/com/mongodb/mongo/1.0/mongo-1.0.jar b/embedded-repo/com/mongodb/mongo/1.0/mongo-1.0.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..81402ed075
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