diff --git a/.changeset/cozy-wombats-burn.md b/.changeset/cozy-wombats-burn.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e04a363fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/cozy-wombats-burn.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@apostrophecms/cli": patch
+---
+
+Bump and clean up depdendencies.
diff --git a/packages/cli/lib/util.js b/packages/cli/lib/util.js
index f531f47e77..566b3e75fc 100644
--- a/packages/cli/lib/util.js
+++ b/packages/cli/lib/util.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const util = {};
 const _ = require('lodash');
 const cliVersion = require('../package.json').version;
 const confUtils = require('./conf-utils');
-const packageJson = require('package-json');
+const { execSync } = require('child_process');
 const semver = require('semver');
 const ora = require('ora');
 const { spawn } = require('child_process');
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ util.spawnWithSpinner = async function (command, options = {
 async function checkIfUpdated () {
   try {
     // Get the latest published version number.
-    const { version: latest } = await packageJson('@apostrophecms/cli');
+    const latest = execSync('npm show @apostrophecms/cli version', { encoding: 'utf8' }).trim();
 
     // Check if they've been notified for this version already. If so, bail out.
     const latestChecked = await confUtils.getConf('versionNotified');
diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index 25c13dcde7..ff9c72b249 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@
     "conf": "^6.2.4",
     "lodash": "^4.18.1",
     "ora": "^5.4.1",
-    "package-json": "^6.5.0",
     "pkginfo": "^0.4.1",
     "prompts": "^2.3.2",
     "semver": "^7.3.2",
     "shell-quote": "^1.8.1",
-    "shelljs": "~0.3.x",
+    "shelljs": "^0.10.0",
     "sync-request": "^6.0.0",
     "uuid": "^8.0.0"
   },