diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8ee184d2..10d6aa03 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -294,6 +294,11 @@
 			<artifactId>dropwizard-migrations</artifactId>
 			<version>${dropwizard.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
+			<artifactId>liquibase-core</artifactId>
+			<version>3.6.3</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>io.dropwizard</groupId>
 			<artifactId>dropwizard-assets</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/service/StartupService.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/service/StartupService.java
index 1405596a..6c5e36b1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/service/StartupService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/service/StartupService.java
@@ -63,9 +63,8 @@ public class StartupService implements Managed {
 				}
 
 				ResourceAccessor accessor = new ClassLoaderResourceAccessor(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
-				try (Liquibase liq = new Liquibase("migrations.xml", accessor, database)) {
-					liq.update("prod");
-				}
+				Liquibase liq = new Liquibase("migrations.xml", accessor, database);
+				liq.update("prod");
 
 			} catch (Exception e) {
 				throw new RuntimeException(e);