diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1a0139f9..e4b2c841 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
-                <version>1.8.3</version>
+                <version>1.10.3</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
diff --git a/webmagic-core/src/main/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/selector/Html.java b/webmagic-core/src/main/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/selector/Html.java
index 7b22639a..f2218f12 100644
--- a/webmagic-core/src/main/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/selector/Html.java
+++ b/webmagic-core/src/main/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/selector/Html.java
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package us.codecraft.webmagic.selector;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
-import org.jsoup.nodes.Entities;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -20,25 +19,12 @@ public class Html extends HtmlNode {
 
     private Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
 
-	private static volatile boolean INITED = false;
-
 	/**
 	 * Disable jsoup html entity escape. It can be set just before any Html instance is created.
+     * @deprecated
 	 */
 	public static boolean DISABLE_HTML_ENTITY_ESCAPE = false;
 
-	/**
-	 * Disable jsoup html entity escape. It is a hack way only for jsoup 1.7.2.
-	 */
-	private void disableJsoupHtmlEntityEscape() {
-		if (DISABLE_HTML_ENTITY_ESCAPE && !INITED) {
-			Entities.EscapeMode.base.getMap().clear();
-			Entities.EscapeMode.extended.getMap().clear();
-			Entities.EscapeMode.xhtml.getMap().clear();
-			INITED = true;
-		}
-	}
-
     /**
      * Store parsed document for better performance when only one text exist.
      */
@@ -46,7 +32,6 @@ public class Html extends HtmlNode {
 
     public Html(String text, String url) {
         try {
-            disableJsoupHtmlEntityEscape();
             this.document = Jsoup.parse(text, url);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             this.document = null;
@@ -56,7 +41,6 @@ public class Html extends HtmlNode {
 
     public Html(String text) {
         try {
-			disableJsoupHtmlEntityEscape();
             this.document = Jsoup.parse(text);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             this.document = null;
diff --git a/webmagic-core/src/test/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/HtmlTest.java b/webmagic-core/src/test/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/HtmlTest.java
index faf249fa..f42f68d7 100644
--- a/webmagic-core/src/test/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/HtmlTest.java
+++ b/webmagic-core/src/test/java/us/codecraft/webmagic/HtmlTest.java
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ public class HtmlTest {
 
 	@Test
 	public void testEnableJsoupHtmlEntityEscape() throws Exception {
-		Html.DISABLE_HTML_ENTITY_ESCAPE = false;
 		Html html = new Html("aaaaaaa&b");
 		assertThat(html.regex("(aaaaaaa&amp;b)").toString()).isEqualTo("aaaaaaa&amp;b");
 	}