diff --git a/scm-webapp/pom.xml b/scm-webapp/pom.xml
index eac5c53be6..cc89988a32 100644
--- a/scm-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/scm-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -195,48 +195,8 @@
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.sonatype.aether</groupId>
-      <artifactId>aether-connector-wagon</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>aether-connector-asynchttpclient</artifactId>
       <version>${aether.version}</version>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>xbean-reflect</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>sisu-inject-plexus</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.sonatype.sisu</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>plexus-classworlds</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
-      <artifactId>wagon-provider-api</artifactId>
-      <version>${wagon.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
-
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
-      <artifactId>wagon-http-lightweight</artifactId>
-      <version>${wagon.version}</version>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>nekohtml</groupId>
-          <artifactId>nekohtml</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>nekohtml</groupId>
-          <artifactId>xercesMinimal</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-          <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     
     <!-- rest documentation -->
diff --git a/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/plugin/AetherPluginHandler.java b/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/plugin/AetherPluginHandler.java
index b9750a5dae..2dda34a036 100644
--- a/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/plugin/AetherPluginHandler.java
+++ b/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/plugin/AetherPluginHandler.java
@@ -39,16 +39,13 @@ import org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader;
 import org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultVersionRangeResolver;
 import org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultVersionResolver;
 import org.apache.maven.repository.internal.MavenRepositorySystemSession;
-import org.apache.maven.wagon.Wagon;
-import org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.LightweightHttpWagon;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import org.sonatype.aether.RepositorySystem;
 import org.sonatype.aether.collection.CollectRequest;
-import org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonProvider;
-import org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnectorFactory;
+import org.sonatype.aether.connector.async.AsyncRepositoryConnectorFactory;
 import org.sonatype.aether.graph.Dependency;
 import org.sonatype.aether.graph.DependencyFilter;
 import org.sonatype.aether.graph.DependencyNode;
@@ -355,18 +352,8 @@ public class AetherPluginHandler
                        DefaultVersionRangeResolver.class);
     locator.addService(ArtifactDescriptorReader.class,
                        DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.class);
-    locator.setServices(WagonProvider.class, new WagonProvider()
-    {
-      @Override
-      public Wagon lookup(String roleHint) throws Exception
-      {
-        return new LightweightHttpWagon();
-      }
-      @Override
-      public void release(Wagon wagon) {}
-    });
     locator.addService(RepositoryConnectorFactory.class,
-                       WagonRepositoryConnectorFactory.class);
+                       AsyncRepositoryConnectorFactory.class);
 
     return locator.getService(RepositorySystem.class);
   }