diff --git a/pkg/obioptions/version.go b/pkg/obioptions/version.go
index b04e191..5124a22 100644
--- a/pkg/obioptions/version.go
+++ b/pkg/obioptions/version.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 // TODO: The version number is extracted from git. This induces that the version
 // corresponds to the last commit, and not the one when the file will be
 // commited
-var _Commit = "c94e79b"
+var _Commit = "ab9b472"
 var _Version = "Release 4.2.0"
 
 // Version returns the version of the obitools package.
diff --git a/pkg/obiutils/goutils.go b/pkg/obiutils/goutils.go
index 01aade5..0dbc8fd 100644
--- a/pkg/obiutils/goutils.go
+++ b/pkg/obiutils/goutils.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"reflect"
 	"sync"
 
-	"github.com/bytedance/sonic"
+	"github.com/goccy/go-json"
 
 	"github.com/barkimedes/go-deepcopy"
 )
@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ func AtomicCounter(initial ...int) func() int {
 // It takes a bytes.Buffer as a buffer and an interface{} as i.
 // Returns an error.
 func JsonMarshalByteBuffer(buffer *bytes.Buffer, i interface{}) error {
-	encoder := sonic.ConfigDefault.NewEncoder(buffer)
+	encoder := json.NewEncoder(buffer)
+	encoder.SetEscapeHTML(false)
 	err := encoder.Encode(i)
 	b := buffer.Bytes()
 	b = bytes.TrimRight(b, "\n")