diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 489fc9d64..119b60553 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
-    <BUILD_NUMBER></BUILD_NUMBER>
+    <BUILD_NUMBER/>
     <maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyyMMdd-HHmm</maven.build.timestamp.format>
     <build.timestamp>${maven.build.timestamp}</build.timestamp>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
                     </goals>
                   </pluginExecutionFilter>
                   <action>
-                    <ignore></ignore>
+                    <ignore/>
                   </action>
                 </pluginExecution>
               </pluginExecutions>
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.datadoghq</groupId>
       <artifactId>java-dogstatsd-client</artifactId>
-      <version>2.7</version>
+      <version>2.13.1</version>
       <exclusions>
         <!-- This is only needed for UDS channels,
              and brings in a bunch of transitive deps -->