diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2502f3e..73e26ae 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.jenkins-ci.plugins</groupId>
 		<artifactId>plugin</artifactId>
-		<version>6.2108.v08c2b_01b_cf4d</version>
+		<version>6.2116.v7501b_67dc517</version>
 		<relativePath />
 	</parent>
 
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 		<!-- https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/plugin-development/choosing-jenkins-baseline/ -->
 		<jenkins.baseline>2.479</jenkins.baseline>
 		<jenkins.version>${jenkins.baseline}.3</jenkins.version>
+		<ban-commons-lang-2.skip>false</ban-commons-lang-2.skip>
+		<hpi.strictBundledArtifacts>true</hpi.strictBundledArtifacts>
 	</properties>
 
 	<name>Parameterized Scheduler</name>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/parameterizedscheduler/ParameterParser.java b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/parameterizedscheduler/ParameterParser.java
index f50886c..d07ac80 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/parameterizedscheduler/ParameterParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/parameterizedscheduler/ParameterParser.java
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
 import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.CheckForNull;
 import hudson.model.ParametersDefinitionProperty;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ public class ParameterParser {
 	 * @return Map of key-value pairs parsed from provided string
 	 */
 	public Map<String, String> parse(String nameValuePairFormattedString) {
-		if (StringUtils.isBlank(nameValuePairFormattedString)) {
+		if (nameValuePairFormattedString == null || nameValuePairFormattedString.isBlank()) {
 			return Collections.emptyMap();
 		}
 		String clean = nameValuePairFormattedString.trim();