diff --git a/java-sdk/pom.xml b/java-sdk/pom.xml
index 0f6293796f..b01d0a05c9 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>1.0.6</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 52c463fc58..5d993541c0 100644
--- a/operator/pom.xml
+++ b/operator/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         <!-- 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>6.6.4</quarkus.operator.sdk.version>
         <quarkus.container-image.group>apicurio</quarkus.container-image.group>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ba6422e3b5..ffdf9c65ce 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -140,15 +140,15 @@
         <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.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>
+        <okio-jvm.version>3.9.0</okio-jvm.version>
+        <okio.version>3.9.0</okio.version>
+        <okio-fake-file-system.version>3.9.0</okio-fake-file-system.version>
         <icu4j.version>74.2</icu4j.version>
-        <protobuf.version>3.25.3</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>4.26.0</protobuf.version>
         <xmlsec.version>4.0.2</xmlsec.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.34.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.36.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.3</wsdl4j.version>
-        <google.truth.extension.version>1.4.1</google.truth.extension.version>
+        <google.truth.extension.version>1.4.2</google.truth.extension.version>
 
         <!-- Picocli -->
         <picocli.version>4.6.3</picocli.version>
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
 
         <!-- JSON Schema Validator -->
         <org.everit.json.schema.version>1.14.4</org.everit.json.schema.version><!-- TODO unification -->
-        <jackson-datatype-json-org.version>2.16.1</jackson-datatype-json-org.version>
+        <jackson-datatype-json-org.version>2.17.0</jackson-datatype-json-org.version>
         <jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>2.15.2</jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>
 
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
@@ -186,17 +186,17 @@
         <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>
-        <kafka-oauth-client.version>0.14.0</kafka-oauth-client.version>
+        <apicurio-common-app-components.version>1.0.16.Final</apicurio-common-app-components.version>
+        <kafka-oauth-client.version>0.15.0</kafka-oauth-client.version>
         <kafka-clients.version>3.6.0</kafka-clients.version>
         <snakeyaml.version>2.2</snakeyaml.version>
-        <guava.version>33.0.0-jre</guava.version>
-        <woodstox-core.version>6.6.0</woodstox-core.version>
-        <jgit.version>6.8.0.202311291450-r</jgit.version>
+        <guava.version>33.1.0-jre</guava.version>
+        <woodstox-core.version>6.6.1</woodstox-core.version>
+        <jgit.version>6.9.0.202403050737-r</jgit.version>
         <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>
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
         <version.checkstyle.plugin>3.3.1</version.checkstyle.plugin>
         <version.properties.plugin>1.2.1</version.properties.plugin>
         <version.dependency.plugin>3.6.1</version.dependency.plugin>
-        <version.assembly.plugin>3.6.0</version.assembly.plugin>
+        <version.assembly.plugin>3.7.0</version.assembly.plugin>
         <version.resources.plugin>3.3.1</version.resources.plugin>
         <version.clean.plugin>3.3.2</version.clean.plugin>
         <version.maven-antrun.plugin>3.1.0</version.maven-antrun.plugin>
@@ -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>1.19.6</test-containers.version>
+        <test-containers.version>1.19.7</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>
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>io.github.git-commit-id</groupId>
                 <artifactId>git-commit-id-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>6.0.0</version>
+                <version>8.0.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>get-the-git-infos</id>
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.1.0</version>
+                        <version>3.2.0</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>sign-artifacts</id>
diff --git a/utils/tests/pom.xml b/utils/tests/pom.xml
index 694ffcac6c..0124119ce6 100644
--- a/utils/tests/pom.xml
+++ b/utils/tests/pom.xml
@@ -104,12 +104,12 @@
     		<dependency>
     			<groupId>org.apache.james</groupId>
     			<artifactId>apache-mime4j-dom</artifactId>
-    			<version>0.8.9</version>
+    			<version>0.8.11</version>
     		</dependency>
     		<dependency>
     			<groupId>org.apache.james</groupId>
     			<artifactId>apache-mime4j-storage</artifactId>
-    			<version>0.8.9</version>
+    			<version>0.8.11</version>
     		</dependency>
     	</dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>