diff --git a/java-sdk/pom.xml b/java-sdk/pom.xml
index 0f6293796f..d7dc855a7a 100644
--- a/java-sdk/pom.xml
+++ b/java-sdk/pom.xml
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>apicurio-registry-java-sdk</artifactId>
     <properties>
-        <kiota.libs.version>0.12.1</kiota.libs.version>
-        <kiota.community.version>0.0.13</kiota.community.version>
+        <kiota.libs.version>1.0.2</kiota.libs.version>
+        <kiota.community.version>0.0.15</kiota.community.version>
     </properties>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/operator/pom.xml b/operator/pom.xml
index ce5b2dffb4..f057ba9846 100644
--- a/operator/pom.xml
+++ b/operator/pom.xml
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <awaitility.version>4.2.0</awaitility.version>
         <kubernetes-client-java-gen.version>6.10.0</kubernetes-client-java-gen.version>
-        <assertj.core.version>3.25.1</assertj.core.version>
+        <assertj.core.version>3.25.3</assertj.core.version>
         <bouncycastle.version>1.70</bouncycastle.version>
         <!-- ATTENTION! The Quarkus version needs to be aligned with the Quarkus Operator SDK -->
         <!-- TODO: possibly stabilize on something shared with the rest of the repo -->
         <quarkus.version>3.4.2</quarkus.version>
-        <quarkus.operator.sdk.version>6.3.3</quarkus.operator.sdk.version>
+        <quarkus.operator.sdk.version>6.6.3</quarkus.operator.sdk.version>
         <quarkus.container-image.group>apicurio</quarkus.container-image.group>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5f0c819c96..377ba4a090 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -138,23 +138,23 @@
 
         <!-- Schema types -->
         <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.version>
-        <wire-schema.version>4.9.3</wire-schema.version>
-        <wire-compiler.version>4.9.3</wire-compiler.version>
-        <okio-jvm.version>3.7.0</okio-jvm.version>
-        <okio.version>3.7.0</okio.version>
-        <okio-fake-file-system.version>3.7.0</okio-fake-file-system.version>
+        <wire-schema.version>4.9.7</wire-schema.version>
+        <wire-compiler.version>4.9.7</wire-compiler.version>
+        <okio-jvm.version>3.8.0</okio-jvm.version>
+        <okio.version>3.8.0</okio.version>
+        <okio-fake-file-system.version>3.8.0</okio-fake-file-system.version>
         <icu4j.version>74.2</icu4j.version>
         <protobuf.version>3.25.2</protobuf.version>
         <xmlsec.version>4.0.1</xmlsec.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.31.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.34.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.3</wsdl4j.version>
-        <google.truth.extension.version>1.3.0</google.truth.extension.version>
+        <google.truth.extension.version>1.4.0</google.truth.extension.version>
 
         <!-- Picocli -->
         <picocli.version>4.6.3</picocli.version>
 
         <!-- Confluent API / client -->
-        <confluent.version>7.5.3</confluent.version>
+        <confluent.version>7.6.0</confluent.version>
 
         <!-- Default Quarkus configuration profile -->
         <quarkus.profile>dev</quarkus.profile>
@@ -182,11 +182,11 @@
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
         <lombok.version>1.18.30</lombok.version>
         <h2.version>1.4.199</h2.version>
-        <commons-codec.version>1.16.0</commons-codec.version>
+        <commons-codec.version>1.16.1</commons-codec.version>
         <jboss-slf4j.version>1.2.1.Final</jboss-slf4j.version>
         <httpclient.version>4.5.14</httpclient.version>
         <apicurio-common-rest-client.version>0.1.18.Final</apicurio-common-rest-client.version>
-        <apicurio-common-app-components.version>0.2.2.Final</apicurio-common-app-components.version>
+        <apicurio-common-app-components.version>1.0.16.Final</apicurio-common-app-components.version>
         <kafka-oauth-client.version>0.14.0</kafka-oauth-client.version>
         <kafka-clients.version>3.6.0</kafka-clients.version>
         <snakeyaml.version>2.2</snakeyaml.version>
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
         <awaitility.version>4.2.0</awaitility.version>
 
         <!-- Kafka Connect -->
-        <connect.version>3.5.1</connect.version>
+        <connect.version>7.6.0-ce</connect.version>
 
         <!-- Specifications -->
         <annotation-api.version>1.3.5</annotation-api.version>
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
         <os-maven-plugin.version>1.7.1</os-maven-plugin.version>
 
         <!-- Test containers version, should be aligned with version used in Quarkus -->
-        <test-containers.version>1.19.3</test-containers.version>
+        <test-containers.version>1.19.5</test-containers.version>
         <keycloak.testcontainers.version>1.9.0</keycloak.testcontainers.version>
         <keycloak-admin-client.version>21.1.2</keycloak-admin-client.version>
         <embedded-postgres.version>2.0.6</embedded-postgres.version>
diff --git a/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml b/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml
index 69f4543684..5c52e26756 100644
--- a/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml
+++ b/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-schema-registry-client</artifactId>
-            <version>7.5.3</version>
+            <version>7.6.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>