diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/java/logging.rst b/akka-docs/rst/java/logging.rst
index 5eec1f9c31..83e40da63a 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/java/logging.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/java/logging.rst
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ It has one single dependency; the slf4j-api jar. In runtime you also need a SLF4
      <dependency>
        <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
        <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
-       <version>1.0.7</version>
+       <version>1.0.13</version>
      </dependency>
 
 You need to enable the Slf4jLogger in the 'loggers' element in
diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/scala/logging.rst b/akka-docs/rst/scala/logging.rst
index ecec111f23..76be04baf7 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/scala/logging.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/scala/logging.rst
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ It has one single dependency; the slf4j-api jar. In runtime you also need a SLF4
 
   .. code-block:: scala
 
-     lazy val logback = "ch.qos.logback" % "logback-classic" % "1.0.7"
+     lazy val logback = "ch.qos.logback" % "logback-classic" % "1.0.13"
 
 
 You need to enable the Slf4jLogger in the 'loggers' element in
diff --git a/akka-sbt-plugin/sample/project/Build.scala b/akka-sbt-plugin/sample/project/Build.scala
index 52582bcb12..5fd483fbb4 100644
--- a/akka-sbt-plugin/sample/project/Build.scala
+++ b/akka-sbt-plugin/sample/project/Build.scala
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import akka.sbt.AkkaKernelPlugin.{ Dist, outputDirectory, distJvmOptions}
 object HelloKernelBuild extends Build {
   val Organization = "akka.sample"
   val Version      = "2.3-SNAPSHOT"
-  val ScalaVersion = "2.10.2"
+  val ScalaVersion = "2.10.3"
 
   lazy val HelloKernel = Project(
     id = "hello-kernel",
@@ -52,5 +52,5 @@ object Dependency {
 
   val akkaKernel = "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-kernel" % V.Akka
   val akkaSlf4j  = "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-slf4j"  % V.Akka
-  val logback    = "ch.qos.logback"    % "logback-classic" % "1.0.0"
+  val logback    = "ch.qos.logback"    % "logback-classic" % "1.0.13"
 }
diff --git a/project/AkkaBuild.scala b/project/AkkaBuild.scala
index b73358c725..be43861048 100644
--- a/project/AkkaBuild.scala
+++ b/project/AkkaBuild.scala
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ object Dependencies {
     val protobuf      = "com.google.protobuf"         % "protobuf-java"                % "2.5.0"       // New BSD
     val scalaStm      = "org.scala-stm"              %% "scala-stm"                    % scalaStmVersion // Modified BSD (Scala)
 
-    val slf4jApi      = "org.slf4j"                   % "slf4j-api"                    % "1.7.2"       // MIT
+    val slf4jApi      = "org.slf4j"                   % "slf4j-api"                    % "1.7.5"       // MIT
     val zeroMQClient  = "org.zeromq"                 %% "zeromq-scala-binding"         % scalaZeroMQVersion // ApacheV2
     val uncommonsMath = "org.uncommons.maths"         % "uncommons-maths"              % "1.2.2a" exclude("jfree", "jcommon") exclude("jfree", "jfreechart")      // ApacheV2
     val ariesBlueprint = "org.apache.aries.blueprint" % "org.apache.aries.blueprint"   % "1.1.0"       // ApacheV2
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ object Dependencies {
       val commonsIo    = "commons-io"                  % "commons-io"                   % "2.0.1"            % "test" // ApacheV2
       val commonsCodec = "commons-codec"               % "commons-codec"                % "1.7"              % "test" // ApacheV2
       val junit        = "junit"                       % "junit"                        % "4.10"             % "test" // Common Public License 1.0
-      val logback      = "ch.qos.logback"              % "logback-classic"              % "1.0.7"            % "test" // EPL 1.0 / LGPL 2.1
+      val logback      = "ch.qos.logback"              % "logback-classic"              % "1.0.13"           % "test" // EPL 1.0 / LGPL 2.1
       val mockito      = "org.mockito"                 % "mockito-all"                  % "1.8.1"            % "test" // MIT
       // changing the scalatest dependency must be reflected in akka-docs/rst/dev/multi-jvm-testing.rst
       val scalatest    = "org.scalatest"              %% "scalatest"                    % scalaTestVersion   % "test" // ApacheV2