diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c8068253c999..23ff86181014 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.kohsuke</groupId>
             <artifactId>github-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.330</version>
+            <version>2.0-rc.6</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/miner/GitHubMiner.java b/src/main/java/miner/GitHubMiner.java
index 4d82a1c4becd..f24628460205 100644
--- a/src/main/java/miner/GitHubMiner.java
+++ b/src/main/java/miner/GitHubMiner.java
@@ -193,12 +193,12 @@ private void mineRepo(String repo, Date cutoffDate) throws IOException {
 
         while (pullRequests.hasNext()) {
             List<GHPullRequest> nextPage = pullRequests.nextPage();
-            if (PullRequestFilters.createdBefore(cutoffDate).test(nextPage.get(0))) {
+            if (PullRequestFilters.createdBefore(cutoffDate.toInstant()).test(nextPage.get(0))) {
                 log.info("Checked all PRs for " + repo + " created after " + cutoffDate);
                 break;
             }
             nextPage.stream()
-                    .takeWhile(PullRequestFilters.createdBefore(cutoffDate).negate())
+                    .takeWhile(PullRequestFilters.createdBefore(cutoffDate.toInstant()).negate())
                     .filter(PullRequestFilters.changesOnlyDependencyVersionInPomXML)
                     .filter(PullRequestFilters.breaksBuild)
                     .map(BreakingUpdate::new)
diff --git a/src/main/java/miner/PullRequestFilters.java b/src/main/java/miner/PullRequestFilters.java
index 1547e30332c3..f56df52ba925 100644
--- a/src/main/java/miner/PullRequestFilters.java
+++ b/src/main/java/miner/PullRequestFilters.java
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import org.kohsuke.github.*;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Date;
+import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.function.Predicate;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ private PullRequestFilters() { /* Nothing to see here... */ }
      * @return a {@link java.util.function.Predicate} over {@link org.kohsuke.github.GHPullRequest}s returning
      *         true if a PR was created before the given date, false otherwise.
      */
-    public static Predicate<GHPullRequest> createdBefore(Date cutoffDate) {
+    public static Predicate<GHPullRequest> createdBefore(Instant cutoffDate) {
         return pr -> {
             try {
-                return pr.getCreatedAt().before(cutoffDate);
+                return pr.getCreatedAt().isBefore(cutoffDate);
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 throw new RuntimeException(e);
             }
diff --git a/src/test/java/miner/PullRequestFiltersTest.java b/src/test/java/miner/PullRequestFiltersTest.java
index 6f3383035de1..3b97e78dc072 100644
--- a/src/test/java/miner/PullRequestFiltersTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/miner/PullRequestFiltersTest.java
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.time.Instant;
-import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ void createdBeforeCorrectlyIdentifiesPR() throws IOException {
             gitHub.getRepository("iluwatar/java-design-patterns").getPullRequest(1976),
             gitHub.getRepository("alibaba/fastjson").getPullRequest(4233)
         );
-        Date cutoffDate = Date.from(Instant.parse("2022-04-01T00:00:00.00Z"));
+        Instant cutoffDate = Instant.parse("2022-04-01T00:00:00.00Z");
         assertEquals(2, prs.stream().filter(PullRequestFilters.createdBefore(cutoffDate)).count());
     }
 }