diff --git a/project/Dependencies.scala b/project/Dependencies.scala
index a3faaf08..cb217ad0 100644
--- a/project/Dependencies.scala
+++ b/project/Dependencies.scala
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ object Dependencies {
   val cachecontrol = Seq("org.playframework" %% "cachecontrol" % "3.1.0-M1")
 
   val asyncHttpClient = Seq(
-    ("org.asynchttpclient" % "async-http-client" % "2.12.3") // 2.12.x comes with outdated netty-reactive-streams, so we ...
+    ("org.asynchttpclient" % "async-http-client" % "3.0.0") // 2.12.x comes with outdated netty-reactive-streams, so we ...
       .exclude("com.typesafe.netty", "netty-reactive-streams"), // ... exclude it and pull in ...
     "com.typesafe.netty" % "netty-reactive-streams" % "2.0.12", // ... a newer version ourselves (ahc v3 will drop that dependency)
   )