diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 37a8d7dda001326a166969cdb661345018b05c6d..d333ee68bd8d8c0239460ae249c0b277ae1fa874 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
         <maven.clean.version>3.1.0</maven.clean.version>
         <nimbus.jwt.version>8.17</nimbus.jwt.version>
         <asm.version>8.0</asm.version>
-        <jeromq.version>0.5.2</jeromq.version>
         <maven.model.version>3.2.5</maven.model.version>
         <apache.httpcore.version>4.4.12</apache.httpcore.version>
         <apache.httpclient.version>4.5.10</apache.httpclient.version>
diff --git a/updater/pom.xml b/updater/pom.xml
index a4ec92a6eeef1ac631a6422cf13371f9f6ad037c..f057112b0bc75d8abb2a4c1294b7d2851b793e24 100644
--- a/updater/pom.xml
+++ b/updater/pom.xml
@@ -43,22 +43,6 @@
             <artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
             <version>3.1.0</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.zeromq</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jeromq</artifactId>
-            <version>${jeromq.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.zeromq</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jeromq</artifactId>
-            <version>0.5.2</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>net.jami</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jams-common</artifactId>
-            <version>0.5A</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.jami</groupId>
             <artifactId>jams-common</artifactId>
diff --git a/updater/src/main/java/net/jami/jams/updater/MessageReceiver.java b/updater/src/main/java/net/jami/jams/updater/MessageReceiver.java
deleted file mode 100644
index e25571d4ba778dd462b716f7229d1d0d945f039b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/updater/src/main/java/net/jami/jams/updater/MessageReceiver.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-package net.jami.jams.updater;
-
-import org.zeromq.ZMQ;
-
-import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
-
-public class MessageReceiver extends Thread {
-
-    private ZMQ.Socket socket;
-    private AtomicBoolean atomicBoolean;
-
-    public MessageReceiver(ZMQ.Socket socket, AtomicBoolean atomicBoolean) {
-        this.socket = socket;
-        this.atomicBoolean = atomicBoolean;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void run() {
-        while(true){
-            try{
-                String message = socket.recvStr();
-                if(message.equals("DO-UPDATE")) atomicBoolean.set(true);
-            }
-            catch (Exception e){
-                System.out.println("Some exception occurred!");
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}