diff --git a/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.fromYaml.adoc b/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.fromYaml.adoc
index 3c5b0ad15f..490968eb9e 100644
--- a/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.fromYaml.adoc
+++ b/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.fromYaml.adoc
@@ -24,11 +24,6 @@ apoc.convert.fromYaml(value :: STRING, config = {} :: MAP) :: ANY
 == Config parameters
 include::partial$usage/config/apoc.convert.fromYaml.adoc[]
 
-[[yaml-dependencies]]
-=== Install dependencies
-Note that to use this function, you have to install additional dependencies
-which can be downloaded https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures/releases/download/{apoc-release}/apoc-yaml-dependencies-{apoc-release}-all.jar[from this link].
-
 
 [[usage-apoc.convert.fromYaml]]
 == Usage Examples
diff --git a/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.toYaml.adoc b/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.toYaml.adoc
index fffed30601..2e3267ece2 100644
--- a/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.toYaml.adoc
+++ b/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.toYaml.adoc
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@ apoc.convert.toYaml(value :: ANY, config = {} :: MAP) :: STRING
 == Config parameters
 include::partial$usage/config/apoc.convert.toYaml.adoc[]
 
-[[yaml-dependencies]]
-=== Install dependencies
-Note that to use this function, you have to install additional dependencies
-which can be downloaded https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures/releases/download/{apoc-release}/apoc-yaml-dependencies-{apoc-release}-all.jar[from this link].
-
-
 [[usage-apoc.convert.toYaml]]
 == Usage Examples
 include::partial$usage/apoc.convert.toYaml.adoc[]
diff --git a/extended/build.gradle b/extended/build.gradle
index 7925d04c12..571ba92bf8 100644
--- a/extended/build.gradle
+++ b/extended/build.gradle
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ dependencies {
     }
 
     def withoutJacksons = {
+        exclude group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core', module: 'jackson-core'
         exclude group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core', module: 'jackson-annotations'
         exclude group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core', module: 'jackson-databind'
     }
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: 'org.apache.commons', module: 'commons-lang3'
     }
     implementation group: 'us.fatehi', name: 'schemacrawler', version: '16.20.8'
+    implementation group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat', name: 'jackson-dataformat-yaml', version: '2.17.0', withoutJacksons
 
     // These will be dependencies not packaged with the .jar
     // They need to be provided either through the database or in an extra .jar
@@ -113,11 +115,9 @@ dependencies {
     // testImplementation analogous is not needed since is bundled via `test-utils` submodule
     compileOnly group: 'org.apache.hadoop', name: 'hadoop-common', version: '3.3.6', withoutServers
 
-    compileOnly group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat', name: 'jackson-dataformat-yaml', version: '2.16.1'
     compileOnly group: 'org.apache.arrow', name: 'arrow-vector', version: '13.0.0'
     compileOnly group: 'org.apache.arrow', name: 'arrow-memory-netty', version: '13.0.0'
 
-    testImplementation group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat', name: 'jackson-dataformat-yaml', version: '2.16.1'
     testImplementation group: 'org.apache.arrow', name: 'arrow-vector', version: '13.0.0'
     testImplementation group: 'org.apache.arrow', name: 'arrow-memory-netty', version: '13.0.0'
 
diff --git a/extended/src/main/java/apoc/convert/ConvertExtended.java b/extended/src/main/java/apoc/convert/ConvertExtended.java
index d1c881ea10..8d0a291aa7 100644
--- a/extended/src/main/java/apoc/convert/ConvertExtended.java
+++ b/extended/src/main/java/apoc/convert/ConvertExtended.java
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import apoc.Extended;
 import apoc.meta.Types;
-import apoc.util.MissingDependencyException;
 import apoc.util.collection.Iterables;
 import org.neo4j.graphdb.Node;
 import org.neo4j.graphdb.Path;
@@ -25,20 +24,13 @@
 
 @Extended
 public class ConvertExtended {
-    private static final String YAML_MISSING_DEPS_ERROR = """
-            Cannot find the Yaml client jar.
-            Please put the apoc-yaml-dependencies-5.x.x-all.jar into plugin folder.
-            See the documentation: https://neo4j.com/labs/apoc/5/overview/apoc.convert/apoc.convert.toYaml/#yaml-dependencies""";
 
-    
     @UserFunction("apoc.convert.toYaml")
     @Description("apoc.convert.toYaml(value, $config) - Serializes the given value to a YAML string")
     public String toYaml(@Name("value") Object value, @Name(value = "config", defaultValue = "{}") Map<String, Object> config) {
         Object result = writeYamlResult(value);
         try {
             return getYamlFactory(result, config);
-        } catch (NoClassDefFoundError e) {
-            throw new MissingDependencyException(YAML_MISSING_DEPS_ERROR);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new RuntimeException("Can't convert " + "value" + " to yaml", e);
         }
@@ -47,13 +39,9 @@ public String toYaml(@Name("value") Object value, @Name(value = "config", defaul
     @UserFunction("apoc.convert.fromYaml")
     @Description("apoc.convert.fromYaml(value, $config) - Deserializes the YAML string to Neo4j value")
     public Object fromYaml(@Name("value") String value, @Name(value = "config", defaultValue = "{}") Map<String, Object> config) throws Exception {
-        try {
-            Object parse = parse(value, config);
-            var mappingConf = (Map<String, Object>) config.getOrDefault(MAPPING_KEY, Map.of());
-            return toValidYamlValue(parse, null, mappingConf, true);
-        } catch (NoClassDefFoundError e) {
-            throw new MissingDependencyException(YAML_MISSING_DEPS_ERROR);
-        }
+        Object parse = parse(value, config);
+        var mappingConf = (Map<String, Object>) config.getOrDefault(MAPPING_KEY, Map.of());
+        return toValidYamlValue(parse, null, mappingConf, true);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -65,15 +53,15 @@ private Object writeYamlResult(Object value) {
         return switch (type) {
             case NODE -> nodeToMap((Node) value);
             case RELATIONSHIP -> relToMap((Relationship) value);
-            
+
             case PATH -> writeYamlResult(Iterables.stream((Path) value)
                     .map(i -> i instanceof Node ? nodeToMap((Node) i) : relToMap((Relationship) i))
                     .collect(Collectors.toList()));
-            
+
             case LIST -> ConvertUtils.convertToList(value).stream()
                     .map(this::writeYamlResult)
                     .collect(Collectors.toList());
-            
+
             case MAP -> ((Map<String, Object>) value)
                     .entrySet()
                     .stream()
@@ -82,7 +70,7 @@ private Object writeYamlResult(Object value) {
                             (mapAccumulator, entry) ->
                                     mapAccumulator.put(entry.getKey(), writeYamlResult(entry.getValue())),
                             HashMap::putAll);
-            
+
             default -> value;
         };
     }
diff --git a/extra-dependencies/settings.gradle b/extra-dependencies/settings.gradle
index b15e3c4e7e..18c0c39e72 100644
--- a/extra-dependencies/settings.gradle
+++ b/extra-dependencies/settings.gradle
@@ -9,4 +9,3 @@ include('selenium')
 include('hadoop')
 include('gcs')
 include('aws')
-include('yaml')
diff --git a/extra-dependencies/yaml/build.gradle b/extra-dependencies/yaml/build.gradle
deleted file mode 100644
index f06deb7bef..0000000000
--- a/extra-dependencies/yaml/build.gradle
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-plugins {
-    id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '7.1.0'
-}
-
-java {
-    sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
-    targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
-}
-
-archivesBaseName = 'apoc-yaml-dependencies'
-description = """APOC Yaml Dependencies"""
-
-jar {
-    manifest {
-        attributes 'Implementation-Version': version
-    }
-}
-
-dependencies {
-    implementation group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat', name: 'jackson-dataformat-yaml', version: '2.17.0', commonExclusions
-}
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index e289a2835a..0000000000
Binary files a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index c85df3d885..0000000000
--- a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#Tue Feb 06 14:27:44 CET 2018
-distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.2-bin.zip
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradlew b/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradlew
deleted file mode 100755
index 2fe81a7d95..0000000000
--- a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradlew
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,183 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-
-#
-# Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-##############################################################################
-##
-##  Gradle start up script for UN*X
-##
-##############################################################################
-
-# Attempt to set APP_HOME
-# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
-PRG="$0"
-# Need this for relative symlinks.
-while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
-    ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
-    link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
-    if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
-        PRG="$link"
-    else
-        PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`"/$link"
-    fi
-done
-SAVED="`pwd`"
-cd "`dirname \"$PRG\"`/" >/dev/null
-APP_HOME="`pwd -P`"
-cd "$SAVED" >/dev/null
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
-APP_BASE_NAME=`basename "$0"`
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
-
-# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
-MAX_FD="maximum"
-
-warn () {
-    echo "$*"
-}
-
-die () {
-    echo
-    echo "$*"
-    echo
-    exit 1
-}
-
-# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
-cygwin=false
-msys=false
-darwin=false
-nonstop=false
-case "`uname`" in
-  CYGWIN* )
-    cygwin=true
-    ;;
-  Darwin* )
-    darwin=true
-    ;;
-  MINGW* )
-    msys=true
-    ;;
-  NONSTOP* )
-    nonstop=true
-    ;;
-esac
-
-CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
-if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
-    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
-        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
-        JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java"
-    else
-        JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
-    fi
-    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
-        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-    fi
-else
-    JAVACMD="java"
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-fi
-
-# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
-if [ "$cygwin" = "false" -a "$darwin" = "false" -a "$nonstop" = "false" ] ; then
-    MAX_FD_LIMIT=`ulimit -H -n`
-    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
-        if [ "$MAX_FD" = "maximum" -o "$MAX_FD" = "max" ] ; then
-            MAX_FD="$MAX_FD_LIMIT"
-        fi
-        ulimit -n $MAX_FD
-        if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
-            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit: $MAX_FD"
-        fi
-    else
-        warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit: $MAX_FD_LIMIT"
-    fi
-fi
-
-# For Darwin, add options to specify how the application appears in the dock
-if $darwin; then
-    GRADLE_OPTS="$GRADLE_OPTS \"-Xdock:name=$APP_NAME\" \"-Xdock:icon=$APP_HOME/media/gradle.icns\""
-fi
-
-# For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
-if [ "$cygwin" = "true" -o "$msys" = "true" ] ; then
-    APP_HOME=`cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME"`
-    CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH"`
-    JAVACMD=`cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD"`
-
-    # We build the pattern for arguments to be converted via cygpath
-    ROOTDIRSRAW=`find -L / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d 2>/dev/null`
-    SEP=""
-    for dir in $ROOTDIRSRAW ; do
-        ROOTDIRS="$ROOTDIRS$SEP$dir"
-        SEP="|"
-    done
-    OURCYGPATTERN="(^($ROOTDIRS))"
-    # Add a user-defined pattern to the cygpath arguments
-    if [ "$GRADLE_CYGPATTERN" != "" ] ; then
-        OURCYGPATTERN="$OURCYGPATTERN|($GRADLE_CYGPATTERN)"
-    fi
-    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
-    i=0
-    for arg in "$@" ; do
-        CHECK=`echo "$arg"|egrep -c "$OURCYGPATTERN" -`
-        CHECK2=`echo "$arg"|egrep -c "^-"`                                 ### Determine if an option
-
-        if [ $CHECK -ne 0 ] && [ $CHECK2 -eq 0 ] ; then                    ### Added a condition
-            eval `echo args$i`=`cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg"`
-        else
-            eval `echo args$i`="\"$arg\""
-        fi
-        i=`expr $i + 1`
-    done
-    case $i in
-        0) set -- ;;
-        1) set -- "$args0" ;;
-        2) set -- "$args0" "$args1" ;;
-        3) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" ;;
-        4) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" ;;
-        5) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" ;;
-        6) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" ;;
-        7) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" ;;
-        8) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" "$args7" ;;
-        9) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" "$args7" "$args8" ;;
-    esac
-fi
-
-# Escape application args
-save () {
-    for i do printf %s\\n "$i" | sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g;1s/^/'/;\$s/\$/' \\\\/" ; done
-    echo " "
-}
-APP_ARGS=`save "$@"`
-
-# Collect all arguments for the java command, following the shell quoting and substitution rules
-eval set -- $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS "\"-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$APP_ARGS"
-
-exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradlew.bat b/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradlew.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 9618d8d960..0000000000
--- a/extra-dependencies/yaml/gradlew.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-@rem
-@rem Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
-@rem
-@rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-@rem you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-@rem You may obtain a copy of the License at
-@rem
-@rem      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-@rem
-@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-@rem limitations under the License.
-@rem
-
-@if "%DEBUG%" == "" @echo off
-@rem ##########################################################################
-@rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
-@rem
-@rem ##########################################################################
-
-@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
-
-set DIRNAME=%~dp0
-if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
-set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
-set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
-
-@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
-
-@rem Find java.exe
-if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
-
-set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
-%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto init
-
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
-
-goto fail
-
-:findJavaFromJavaHome
-set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
-set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
-
-if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto init
-
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
-
-goto fail
-
-:init
-@rem Get command-line arguments, handling Windows variants
-
-if not "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto win9xME_args
-
-:win9xME_args
-@rem Slurp the command line arguments.
-set CMD_LINE_ARGS=
-set _SKIP=2
-
-:win9xME_args_slurp
-if "x%~1" == "x" goto execute
-
-set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%*
-
-:execute
-@rem Setup the command line
-
-set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-@rem Execute Gradle
-"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
-
-:end
-@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto mainEnd
-
-:fail
-rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
-rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-if  not "" == "%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit 1
-exit /b 1
-
-:mainEnd
-if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
-
-:omega