This isn't a change to your version (you're still at 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT)--this is a change to your java-statsd-client dependency. He made it a major version bump due to the public API changing. Since they aren't compatible releases I can't use storm-metrics-statsd and simultaneously use the current java-statsd-client release. Before you do your 1.0.0 release (which I've requested on another issue) you'll probably want to bump to the current java-statsd-client release to "future-proof" yourself.