diff --git a/languagetool-standalone/CHANGES.md b/languagetool-standalone/CHANGES.md
index 2e3aa63ec08a..80b948e17ceb 100644
--- a/languagetool-standalone/CHANGES.md
+++ b/languagetool-standalone/CHANGES.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 
 ...
 
+#### English
+  * tagger and spelling dictionaries have been moved to an external dependency (english-pos-dict v 0.3)
+
 #### Ukrainian
   * new words in the POS dictionary
   * new rules
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fb248ce3ecfc..f03269d793dc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
         <spanish-pos-dict.version>2.1</spanish-pos-dict.version>
         <portuguese-pos-dict.version>0.11</portuguese-pos-dict.version>
         <dutch-pos-dict.version>0.1</dutch-pos-dict.version>
-        <english-pos-dict.version>0.2</english-pos-dict.version>
+        <english-pos-dict.version>0.3</english-pos-dict.version>
         <belarusian-pos-dict.version>1.0.2</belarusian-pos-dict.version>
         <tech.units.indriya.version>1.3</tech.units.indriya.version>
         <ecs-logging-java.version>1.3.2</ecs-logging-java.version>