diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3caae5cbb9f8322c5cdeb09c119753b2065e1ff1..8b4c47e0dcac118aa898e4ada9424293892a4fd0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<targetJdk>1.8</targetJdk>
-		<org.springframework.version>4.3.14.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
+		<org.springframework.version>5.0.3.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
 		<org.hibernate.version>5.2.13.Final</org.hibernate.version>
 		<com.sun.jersey.version>1.19.4</com.sun.jersey.version>
 		<jackson.version>1.9.2</jackson.version>
@@ -2075,23 +2075,23 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-			<version>1.5.11</version>
+			<version>1.7.25</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
-			<version>1.5.11</version>
+			<version>1.7.25</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
-			<version>1.5.8</version>
+			<version>1.7.25</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<!-- Replace commons-logging -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-			<version>1.5.8</version>
+			<version>1.7.25</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>log4j</groupId>
@@ -2270,6 +2270,12 @@
 			<groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
 			<artifactId>quartz</artifactId>
 			<version>2.2.3</version>
+			<exclusions>
+				<exclusion>
+					<groupId>c3p0</groupId>
+					<artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
+				</exclusion>
+			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.thoughtworks.xstream</groupId>
@@ -2350,9 +2356,9 @@
 			<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
 			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
 			<exclusions>
-				<exclusion>
-					<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-					<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+				<exclusion><!-- use jlc-over-slfj because we still use log4j version 1.2 -->
+					<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+					<artifactId>spring-jlc</artifactId>
 				</exclusion>
 			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
@@ -2365,23 +2371,11 @@
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
 			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
-			<exclusions>
-				<exclusion>
-					<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-					<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-				</exclusion>
-			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
 			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
-			<exclusions>
-				<exclusion>
-					<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-					<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-				</exclusion>
-			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
@@ -2570,6 +2564,10 @@
 					<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
 					<artifactId>servlet-api-2.5</artifactId>
 				</exclusion>
+				<exclusion>
+					<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+					<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+				</exclusion>
 			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<!-- End test dependencies -->
diff --git a/src/main/webapp-tomcat/WEB-INF/web.xml b/src/main/webapp-tomcat/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 760b48ba8e564c00f5bd43af505990eaa2a8630b..56de915a138aa8630d6cb8ac8562c356c9551280 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp-tomcat/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp-tomcat/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -98,15 +98,6 @@
             </listener-class>
     </listener>
     
-	
-	
-	<!-- this only works in an expanded war file: Comment on spring website:  
-	If you want to keep your WAR unexpanded or don't need application-specific log files within the WAR directory, 
-	don't use log4j setup within the application (thus, don't use Log4jConfigListener or Log4jConfigServlet). 
-	Instead, use a global, VM-wide log4j setup (for example, in JBoss) or JDK 1.4's java.util.logging (which is global too). -->
-	<listener>
-		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
-	</listener>
 	<listener>
 		<listener-class>org.olat.restapi.security.RestApiSessionListener</listener-class>
 	</listener>