diff --git a/lib/vmpooler.rb b/lib/vmpooler.rb
index 74bd697..ef497e1 100644
--- a/lib/vmpooler.rb
+++ b/lib/vmpooler.rb
@@ -236,12 +236,12 @@ module Vmpooler
     if tracing_enabled.eql?('false')
       puts "Exporting of traces has been disabled so the span processor has been se to a 'NoopSpanExporter'"
       span_processor = OpenTelemetry::SDK::Trace::Export::BatchSpanProcessor.new(
-        exporter: OpenTelemetry::SDK::Trace::Export::NoopSpanExporter.new
+        OpenTelemetry::SDK::Trace::Export::NoopSpanExporter.new
       )
     else
       puts "Exporting of traces will be done over HTTP in binary Thrift format to #{tracing_jaeger_host}"
       span_processor = OpenTelemetry::SDK::Trace::Export::BatchSpanProcessor.new(
-        exporter: OpenTelemetry::Exporter::Jaeger::CollectorExporter.new(endpoint: tracing_jaeger_host)
+        OpenTelemetry::Exporter::Jaeger::CollectorExporter.new(endpoint: tracing_jaeger_host)
       )
     end
 
diff --git a/vmpooler.gemspec b/vmpooler.gemspec
index 390ace0..5a3dd1e 100644
--- a/vmpooler.gemspec
+++ b/vmpooler.gemspec
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency 'connection_pool', '~> 2.2'
   s.add_dependency 'net-ldap', '~> 0.16'
   s.add_dependency 'nokogiri', '~> 1.10'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger', '= 0.15.0'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-concurrent_ruby', '= 0.15.0'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis', '= 0.15.0'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-sinatra', '= 0.15.0'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-resource_detectors', '= 0.15.0'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-sdk', '= 0.15.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger', '= 0.17.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-concurrent_ruby', '= 0.17.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis', '= 0.17.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-sinatra', '= 0.17.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-resource_detectors', '= 0.17.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-sdk', '= 0.17.0'
   s.add_dependency 'pickup', '~> 0.0.11'
   s.add_dependency 'prometheus-client', '~> 2.0'
   s.add_dependency 'puma', '~> 5.0', '>= 5.0.4'