diff --git a/docs/pom.xml b/docs/pom.xml
index 4d721b3d..a2e773be 100644
--- a/docs/pom.xml
+++ b/docs/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 		<docs.whitelisted.branches>1.2.x,1.3.x,2.0.x,2.1.x</docs.whitelisted.branches>
 		<main.basedir>${basedir}/..</main.basedir>
 		<gmavenplus-plugin.version>1.8.1</gmavenplus-plugin.version>
-		<groovy.version>2.5.9</groovy.version>
+		<groovy.version>3.0.2</groovy.version>
 		<!-- For the Groovy plugin -->
 		<groovyVersion>${groovy.version}</groovyVersion>
 		<!-- We don't want to downloaded sources of our own project-->
@@ -98,6 +98,84 @@
 			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-cli-picocli</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-ant</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-astbuilder</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-console</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-docgenerator</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-groovydoc</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-groovysh</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-jmx</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-servlet</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-templates</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-test</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-test-junit5</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+			<artifactId>groovy-testng</artifactId>
+			<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
@@ -148,6 +226,16 @@
 						</goals>
 					</execution>
 				</executions>
+				<dependencies>
+					<dependency>
+						<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+						<artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
+						<!-- any version of Groovy \>= 1.5.0 should work here -->
+						<version>${groovy.version}</version>
+						<scope>runtime</scope>
+						<type>pom</type>
+					</dependency>
+				</dependencies>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
 				<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>