diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 405c11e..24f1ba1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.avaje</groupId>
       <artifactId>avaje-simple-logger</artifactId>
-      <version>0.5</version>
+      <version>1.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
@@ -88,11 +88,6 @@
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.ebean</groupId>
-      <artifactId>ebean-datasource</artifactId>
-      <version>10.1</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.ebean</groupId>
       <artifactId>ebean-postgres</artifactId>
@@ -155,12 +150,6 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
-      <version>2.20.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/src/test/resources/avaje-logger-test.properties b/src/test/resources/avaje-logger-test.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..209ea87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/avaje-logger-test.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+## for testing we desire plain format than json format
+logger.format=plain
+
+## default log level to use when running tests
+logger.defaultLogLevel=INFO
+
+## some test specific log levels
+log.level.io.ebean.test.containers=TRACE
+log.level.io.ebean.DDL=INFO
+log.level.io.ebean.SQL=DEBUG
+#log.level.io.ebean.TXN=DEBUG