diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index e614a4bb..6bc01293 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ jsonschema==4.17.3
     #   drf-spectacular
 kombu==5.3.5
     # via celery
-markdown==3.3.4
+markdown==3.5.2
     # via commonground-api-common
 markupsafe==2.1.3
     # via jinja2
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ requests-mock==1.8.0
     # via zgw-consumers
 sentry-sdk==1.0.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-six==1.15.0
+six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   django-markup
     #   isodate
diff --git a/requirements/ci.txt b/requirements/ci.txt
index 1be4cbe2..d3794feb 100644
--- a/requirements/ci.txt
+++ b/requirements/ci.txt
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ kombu==5.3.5
     #   celery
 lxml==4.7.1
     # via pyquery
-markdown==3.3.4
+markdown==3.5.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   commonground-api-common
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ requests-mock==1.8.0
     #   zgw-consumers
 sentry-sdk==1.0.0
     # via -r requirements/base.txt
-six==1.15.0
+six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-markup
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 46380de3..92dbde74 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ lxml==4.7.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/ci.txt
     #   pyquery
-markdown==3.3.4
+markdown==3.5.2
     # via -r requirements/ci.txt
 markupsafe==2.1.3
     # via
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ requests-mock==1.8.0
     #   zgw-consumers
 sentry-sdk==1.0.0
     # via -r requirements/ci.txt
-six==1.15.0
+six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/ci.txt
     #   django-markup
diff --git a/src/objects/conf/base.py b/src/objects/conf/base.py
index 2f0662a7..f1775a8b 100644
--- a/src/objects/conf/base.py
+++ b/src/objects/conf/base.py
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@
 
 USE_I18N = True
 
-USE_L10N = True
-
 USE_TZ = True
 
 USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True