diff --git a/arangodb-spark-commons/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/arangodb/commons/ArangoClient.scala b/arangodb-spark-commons/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/arangodb/commons/ArangoClient.scala
index 3e1a307..6c73a6d 100644
--- a/arangodb-spark-commons/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/arangodb/commons/ArangoClient.scala
+++ b/arangodb-spark-commons/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/arangodb/commons/ArangoClient.scala
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ class ArangoClient(options: ArangoDBConf) extends Logging {
     val response = arangoDB.execute(request, classOf[RawBytes])
 
     import scala.collection.JavaConverters.asScalaIteratorConverter
-    val errors = serde.parse(response.getBody.get).iterator().asScala
-      .zip(serde.parse(data.get).iterator().asScala)
+    val errors = serde.parse(response.getBody.get, "").iterator().asScala
+      .zip(serde.parse(data.get, "").iterator().asScala)
       .filter(_._1.has("error"))
       .filter(_._1.get("error").booleanValue())
       .map(it => (
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d7074d9..6ac28ca 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.arangodb</groupId>
             <artifactId>arangodb-java-driver-shaded</artifactId>
-            <version>7.9.0</version>
+            <version>7.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.arangodb</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-velocypack</artifactId>
-            <version>4.3.0</version>
+            <version>4.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
@@ -478,4 +478,17 @@
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <id>arangodb-snapshots</id>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/staging</url>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+            </snapshots>
+            <releases>
+                <enabled>false</enabled>
+            </releases>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+
 </project>