diff --git a/Gemfile.d/other_stuff.rb b/Gemfile.d/other_stuff.rb
index 9aa045eb001..3f88a1fc393 100644
--- a/Gemfile.d/other_stuff.rb
+++ b/Gemfile.d/other_stuff.rb
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ gem 'json', '1.8.2'
 gem 'oj', '2.5.5'
 gem 'jwt', '1.2.1'
 
-# native xml parsing, diigo
-gem 'libxml-ruby', '2.7.0', :require => 'xml/libxml'
 gem 'macaddr', '1.0.0' # macaddr 1.2.0 tries to require 'systemu' which isn't a dependency
 gem 'mail', '2.5.4'
   gem 'treetop', '1.4.15'
diff --git a/app/models/bookmark_service.rb b/app/models/bookmark_service.rb
index 056292831e2..3f15be28593 100644
--- a/app/models/bookmark_service.rb
+++ b/app/models/bookmark_service.rb
@@ -71,9 +71,8 @@ class BookmarkService < UserService
       response = http.request(request)
       case response
       when Net::HTTPSuccess
-        require 'libxml'
-        document = LibXML::XML::Parser.string(response.body).parse
-        document.find('/posts/post').each do |post|
+        document = Nokogiri::XML(response.body)
+        document.search('/posts/post').each do |post|
           bookmarks << {
             :title => post['description'],
             :url => post['href'],
diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index cafa4442d8c..76f3af581d9 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ module CanvasRails
     Dir.glob("#{Rails.root}/lib/ext/**/*.rb").each { |file| require file }
 
     # tell Rails to use the native XML parser instead of REXML
-    ActiveSupport::XmlMini.backend = 'LibXML'
+    ActiveSupport::XmlMini.backend = 'Nokogiri'
 
     class NotImplemented < StandardError; end
 
diff --git a/gems/canvas_kaltura/canvas_kaltura.gemspec b/gems/canvas_kaltura/canvas_kaltura.gemspec
index f6c3ac6b7b7..ce22cda05cb 100644
--- a/gems/canvas_kaltura/canvas_kaltura.gemspec
+++ b/gems/canvas_kaltura/canvas_kaltura.gemspec
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
 
 
   spec.add_dependency "nokogiri"
-  spec.add_dependency "libxml-ruby", "~> 2.7"
   spec.add_dependency "canvas_http"
   spec.add_dependency "canvas_sort"
   spec.add_dependency "multipart"
diff --git a/gems/canvas_kaltura/lib/canvas_kaltura/kaltura_client_v3.rb b/gems/canvas_kaltura/lib/canvas_kaltura/kaltura_client_v3.rb
index bbadac8ce47..9daa052eaf2 100644
--- a/gems/canvas_kaltura/lib/canvas_kaltura/kaltura_client_v3.rb
+++ b/gems/canvas_kaltura/lib/canvas_kaltura/kaltura_client_v3.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ require 'csv'
 require 'net/http'
 require 'uri'
 require 'nokogiri'
-require 'libxml'
 require 'multipart'
 
 
diff --git a/gems/plugins/moodle_importer/moodle_importer.gemspec b/gems/plugins/moodle_importer/moodle_importer.gemspec
index 30ecf5f6b24..a1eb75fb7a3 100644
--- a/gems/plugins/moodle_importer/moodle_importer.gemspec
+++ b/gems/plugins/moodle_importer/moodle_importer.gemspec
@@ -18,6 +18,5 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.add_dependency "rails", ">= 3.2", "< 4.2"
   s.add_dependency "moodle2cc", "0.2.16"
-  s.add_dependency "happymapper", "0.4.1"
   s.add_dependency "thor", "0.18.1"
 end
diff --git a/lib/delicious.rb b/lib/delicious.rb
index 91de94c2a32..63d311b47c1 100644
--- a/lib/delicious.rb
+++ b/lib/delicious.rb
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ module Delicious
     response = http.request(request)
     case response
       when Net::HTTPSuccess
-        require 'libxml'
-        updated = LibXML::XML::Parser.string(response.body).parse.child["time"]
+        updated = Nokogiri::XML(response.body).root["time"]
         return Time.parse(updated)
       else
         response.error!
@@ -47,8 +46,7 @@ module Delicious
     response = http.request(request)
     case response
       when Net::HTTPSuccess
-        require 'libxml'
-        code = LibXML::XML::Parser.string(response.body).parse.child["code"]
+        code = Nokogiri::XML(response.body).root["code"]
         return code == 'done'
       else
         response.error!