diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index fd30d1d..2175f99 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "1.1.0-beta2"
+(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "1.1.0-beta3"
   :description "Clojure serialization library"
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy"
   :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"}
   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure    "1.3.0"]
-                 [org.iq80.snappy/snappy "0.2"]]
+                 [org.iq80.snappy/snappy "0.3"]]
   :profiles {:1.3  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]]}
              :1.4  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.4.0"]]}
              :1.5  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.0-alpha3"]]}
diff --git a/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj b/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj
index 7df1b64..30488e1 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj
@@ -58,13 +58,5 @@
   (try (>= (version-compare version-str min-version-str) 0)
        (catch Exception _ false)))
 
-;; TODO Unnecessarily complicated. Waiting on http://goo.gl/7mbR3 merge.
-(defn compress-bytes [ba]
-  (let [ba-size     (alength ^bytes ba)
-        ba-out      (byte-array (Snappy/maxCompressedLength ba-size))
-        ba-out-size (Snappy/compress ba (int 0) (int ba-size) ba-out (int 0))]
-    (java.util.Arrays/copyOf ba-out ba-out-size)))
-
-(defn uncompress-bytes [ba] (Snappy/uncompress ba 0 (alength ^bytes ba)))
-
-(comment (String. (uncompress-bytes (compress-bytes (.getBytes "Test")))))
\ No newline at end of file
+(defn compress-bytes   [^bytes ba] (Snappy/compress   ba))
+(defn uncompress-bytes [^bytes ba] (Snappy/uncompress ba 0 (alength ba)))
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