diff --git a/samples/photo_album/pom.xml b/samples/photo_album/pom.xml
index bf111dee..d38291c5 100644
--- a/samples/photo_album/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/photo_album/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <name>photo_album</name>
 
     <properties>
-        <spring.version>3.2.0.RELEASE</spring.version>
+        <spring.version>4.3.10.RELEASE</spring.version>
     </properties>
 
     <repositories>
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.cloudinary</groupId>
             <artifactId>cloudinary-taglib</artifactId>
-            <version>1.13.0</version>
+            <version>1.14.0</version>
         </dependency>
          <dependency>
             <groupId>com.cloudinary</groupId>
             <artifactId>cloudinary-http44</artifactId>
-            <version>1.13.0</version>
+            <version>1.14.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
@@ -90,13 +90,13 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0.0.Final</version>
+            <version>1.0.1.Final</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
-            <version>3.6.10.Final</version>
+            <version>5.2.10.Final</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -114,13 +114,13 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
             <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.1.0.Final</version>
+            <version>2.0.0.Final</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hibernate-validator-annotation-processor</artifactId>
-            <version>4.1.0.Final</version>
+                <artifactId>hibernate-validator-annotation-processor</artifactId>
+            <version>6.0.1.Final</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/samples/photo_album/src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml b/samples/photo_album/src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml
index 898749ed..8a7baf27 100644
--- a/samples/photo_album/src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml
+++ b/samples/photo_album/src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <persistence version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
     <persistence-unit name="defaultPersistenceUnit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
-        <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
+        <provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
         <properties>
             <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect" />
             <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:spring" />