diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index a4bbe8ddb7..604588fd8d 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
         <!-- Kafka -->
-        <kafka.version>3.5.0</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>7.8.0-ce</kafka.version>
 
         <!-- RestEasy -->
         <resteasy.version>4.5.8.Final</resteasy.version>
 
         <!-- Slf4j -->
-        <slf4j.version>2.0.13</slf4j.version>
+        <slf4j.version>2.0.16</slf4j.version>
 
         <!-- Vert.x version -->
         <vertx.version>3.9.5</vertx.version>
@@ -87,21 +87,21 @@
         <apicurio-common-rest-client.version>0.1.18.Final</apicurio-common-rest-client.version>
 
         <!-- Apicurio schema validation library -->
-        <apicurio-registry-schema-validation.version>0.0.4.Final</apicurio-registry-schema-validation.version>
+        <apicurio-registry-schema-validation.version>0.0.7</apicurio-registry-schema-validation.version>
 
         <!-- Plugin Versions -->
         <version.compiler.plugin>3.13.0</version.compiler.plugin>
-        <version.deploy.plugin>3.1.2</version.deploy.plugin>
-        <version.failsafe.plugin>3.2.5</version.failsafe.plugin>
-        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.6.3</version.javadoc.plugin>
+        <version.deploy.plugin>3.1.3</version.deploy.plugin>
+        <version.failsafe.plugin>3.5.2</version.failsafe.plugin>
+        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.11.2</version.javadoc.plugin>
         <version.source.plugin>3.3.1</version.source.plugin>
-        <version.surefire.plugin>3.2.5</version.surefire.plugin>
-        <version.jar.plugin>3.4.1</version.jar.plugin>
+        <version.surefire.plugin>3.5.2</version.surefire.plugin>
+        <version.jar.plugin>3.4.2</version.jar.plugin>
         <version.properties.plugin>1.2.1</version.properties.plugin>
-        <version.dependency.plugin>3.6.1</version.dependency.plugin>
+        <version.dependency.plugin>3.8.1</version.dependency.plugin>
         <version.assembly.plugin>3.7.1</version.assembly.plugin>
         <version.resources.plugin>3.3.1</version.resources.plugin>
-        <version.clean.plugin>3.3.2</version.clean.plugin>
+        <version.clean.plugin>3.4.0</version.clean.plugin>
         <version.avro>1.11.0</version.avro>
         <protobuf.version>3.21.6</protobuf.version>
         <!-- Proto -->
diff --git a/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml b/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml
index cfe2b9b6e5..42082c7e21 100644
--- a/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
     <artifactId>apicurio-registry-examples-references</artifactId>
 
     <properties>
-        <protobuf.version>3.19.4</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>4.29.2</protobuf.version>
         <proto-plugin.version>0.6.1</proto-plugin.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.39.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.50.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/integration-tests/pom.xml b/integration-tests/pom.xml
index 47da928e8d..632748dab8 100644
--- a/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
             <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
-            <version>3.141.59</version>
+            <version>4.27.0</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7a9908f142..b231ef2139 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -151,25 +151,25 @@
         <node.version>16.17.0</node.version>
 
         <!-- Quarkus Version -->
-        <quarkus.version>3.15.2</quarkus.version>
+        <quarkus.version>3.17.5</quarkus.version>
 
         <!-- Jandex -->
-        <jandex.version>3.1.8</jandex.version>
+        <jandex.version>3.2.3</jandex.version>
 
         <!-- Schema types -->
         <avro.version>1.12.0</avro.version>
         <json-schema-validator.version>1.5.4</json-schema-validator.version>
         <vertx-json-schema.version>4.5.11</vertx-json-schema.version>
-        <wire-schema.version>4.9.11</wire-schema.version>
+        <wire-schema.version>5.2.0</wire-schema.version>
         <okhttp.version>4.12.0</okhttp.version>
         <wire-compiler.version>4.9.11</wire-compiler.version>
         <okio-jvm.version>3.9.1</okio-jvm.version>
         <okio.version>3.9.1</okio.version>
         <okio-fake-file-system.version>3.9.1</okio-fake-file-system.version>
         <icu4j.version>76.1</icu4j.version>
-        <protobuf.version>3.25.5</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>4.29.2</protobuf.version>
         <xmlsec.version>4.0.3</xmlsec.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.49.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.50.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.3</wsdl4j.version>
         <google.truth.extension.version>1.4.4</google.truth.extension.version>
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
         <picocli.version>4.7.6</picocli.version>
 
         <!-- Confluent API / client -->
-        <confluent.version>7.7.2</confluent.version>
+        <confluent.version>7.8.0</confluent.version>
 
         <!-- Default Quarkus configuration profile -->
         <quarkus.profile>dev</quarkus.profile>
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
         <skipCommitIdPlugin>true</skipCommitIdPlugin>
 
         <!-- Apicurio Data Models (OpenAPI and AsyncAPI support) -->
-        <apicurio-data-models.version>2.0.4</apicurio-data-models.version>
+        <apicurio-data-models.version>2.2.1</apicurio-data-models.version>
 
         <!-- Apicurio Tenant Manager -->
         <apicurio-tenant-manager.version>0.2.0.Final</apicurio-tenant-manager.version>
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@
 
         <!-- JSON Schema Validator -->
         <org.everit.json.schema.version>1.14.4</org.everit.json.schema.version>
-        <org.json>20240303</org.json>
-        <jackson.version>2.17.2</jackson.version>
+        <org.json>20241224</org.json>
+        <jackson.version>2.18.2</jackson.version>
 
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
         <lombok.version>1.18.36</lombok.version>
@@ -212,21 +212,21 @@
         <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>0.2.7.Final</apicurio-common-app-components.version>
-        <apicurio-maven-plugin.version>0.0.2</apicurio-maven-plugin.version>
-        <sentry.version>1.7.30</sentry.version>
+        <apicurio-maven-plugin.version>0.0.3</apicurio-maven-plugin.version>
+        <sentry.version>7.20.0</sentry.version>
         <kafka-oauth-client.version>0.15.0</kafka-oauth-client.version>
-        <kafka-clients.version>3.9.0</kafka-clients.version>
-        <guava.version>33.3.1-jre</guava.version>
-        <woodstox-core.version>7.0.0</woodstox-core.version>
+        <kafka-clients.version>7.8.0-ce</kafka-clients.version>
+        <guava.version>33.4.0-jre</guava.version>
+        <woodstox-core.version>7.1.0</woodstox-core.version>
 
         <google-re2j.version>1.7</google-re2j.version>
-        <kotlin-stdlib.version>1.9.25</kotlin-stdlib.version>
-        <graphql-java-dataloader.version>3.3.0</graphql-java-dataloader.version>
+        <kotlin-stdlib.version>2.1.0</kotlin-stdlib.version>
+        <graphql-java-dataloader.version>3.4.0</graphql-java-dataloader.version>
         <kotlinx-datetime-jvm.version>0.6.1</kotlinx-datetime-jvm.version>
         <locationtech-jts.version>1.20.0</locationtech-jts.version>
 
         <!-- Kafka Connect -->
-        <connect.version>3.9.0</connect.version>
+        <connect.version>7.8.0-ce</connect.version>
 
         <!-- Specifications -->
         <annotation-api.version>1.3.5</annotation-api.version>
@@ -238,14 +238,14 @@
         <!-- Plugin Versions -->
         <version.compiler.plugin>3.13.0</version.compiler.plugin>
         <version.deploy.plugin>3.1.3</version.deploy.plugin>
-        <version.failsafe.plugin>3.5.0</version.failsafe.plugin>
-        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.10.1</version.javadoc.plugin>
+        <version.failsafe.plugin>3.5.2</version.failsafe.plugin>
+        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.11.2</version.javadoc.plugin>
         <version.source.plugin>3.3.1</version.source.plugin>
-        <version.surefire.plugin>3.5.0</version.surefire.plugin>
+        <version.surefire.plugin>3.5.2</version.surefire.plugin>
         <version.jar.plugin>3.4.2</version.jar.plugin>
-        <version.checkstyle.plugin>3.5.0</version.checkstyle.plugin>
+        <version.checkstyle.plugin>3.6.0</version.checkstyle.plugin>
         <version.properties.plugin>1.2.1</version.properties.plugin>
-        <version.dependency.plugin>3.8.0</version.dependency.plugin>
+        <version.dependency.plugin>3.8.1</version.dependency.plugin>
         <version.assembly.plugin>3.7.1</version.assembly.plugin>
         <version.resources.plugin>3.3.1</version.resources.plugin>
         <version.clean.plugin>3.4.0</version.clean.plugin>
@@ -253,17 +253,17 @@
         <version.maven-antrun.plugin>3.1.0</version.maven-antrun.plugin>
 
         <!-- Plugin Deps -->
-        <version.puppycrawl>10.15.0</version.puppycrawl>
+        <version.puppycrawl>10.21.1</version.puppycrawl>
 
         <!-- Protocol Buffers -->
         <proto-plugin.version>0.6.1</proto-plugin.version>
         <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>1.19.7</test-containers.version>
-        <embedded-postgres.version>2.0.7</embedded-postgres.version>
+        <test-containers.version>1.20.4</test-containers.version>
+        <embedded-postgres.version>2.1.0</embedded-postgres.version>
         <strimzi.version>0.105.0</strimzi.version>
-        <wiremock.version>3.9.1</wiremock.version>
+        <wiremock.version>3.10.0</wiremock.version>
 
         <protoc-artifact-common>com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protoc-artifact-common>
     </properties>
diff --git a/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml b/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml
index 1f9e68a7b1..ba2dcbdc60 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>7.6.1</version>
+            <version>7.8.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     
diff --git a/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml b/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml
index b8ef6e20b3..b4bb1d15a9 100644
--- a/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.12.0</version>
+                <version>3.15.1</version>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>