diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index f223d2fe6b..29a6118153 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
         <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.javadoc.plugin>3.7.0</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>
diff --git a/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml b/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml
index 3af97641b5..a0d1d129e8 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>4.26.1</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>4.27.0</protobuf.version>
         <proto-plugin.version>0.6.1</proto-plugin.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.39.1</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.40.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/java-sdk/pom.xml b/java-sdk/pom.xml
index 0873ef3169..d875fbb36d 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>1.1.12</kiota.libs.version>
-        <kiota.community.version>0.0.16</kiota.community.version>
+        <kiota.libs.version>1.1.13</kiota.libs.version>
+        <kiota.community.version>0.0.17</kiota.community.version>
         <kiota.base.url>https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/download</kiota.base.url>
     </properties>
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/operator/pom.xml b/operator/pom.xml
index ab7fe2a85b..39015f165a 100644
--- a/operator/pom.xml
+++ b/operator/pom.xml
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <awaitility.version>4.2.1</awaitility.version>
-        <kubernetes-client-java-gen.version>6.12.1</kubernetes-client-java-gen.version>
+        <kubernetes-client-java-gen.version>6.13.0</kubernetes-client-java-gen.version>
         <assertj.core.version>3.26.0</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>6.7.1</quarkus.operator.sdk.version>
         <quarkus.container-image.group>apicurio</quarkus.container-image.group>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5166806320..d71d464ebb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -132,10 +132,10 @@
         <node.version>16.17.0</node.version>
 
         <!-- Quarkus Version -->
-        <quarkus.version>3.9.3</quarkus.version>
+        <quarkus.version>3.11.1</quarkus.version>
 
         <!-- Jandex -->
-        <jandex.version>3.1.8</jandex.version>
+        <jandex.version>3.2.0</jandex.version>
 
         <!-- Schema types -->
         <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.version>
@@ -147,9 +147,9 @@
         <okio.version>3.9.0</okio.version>
         <okio-fake-file-system.version>3.9.0</okio-fake-file-system.version>
         <icu4j.version>75.1</icu4j.version>
-        <protobuf.version>3.19.6</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>4.27.0</protobuf.version>
         <xmlsec.version>4.0.2</xmlsec.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.39.1</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.40.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.3</wsdl4j.version>
         <google.truth.extension.version>1.4.2</google.truth.extension.version>
 
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
         <org.everit.json.schema.version>1.14.4</org.everit.json.schema.version><!-- TODO unification -->
         <org.json.version>20240303</org.json.version>
         <jackson-datatype-json-org.version>2.17.1</jackson-datatype-json-org.version>
-        <jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>2.15.2</jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>
+        <jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>2.17.1</jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>
 
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
         <lombok.version>1.18.32</lombok.version>
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@
         <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>33.2.0-jre</guava.version>
+        <guava.version>33.2.1-jre</guava.version>
         <woodstox-core.version>6.6.2</woodstox-core.version>
-        <jgit.version>6.9.0.202403050737-r</jgit.version>
+        <jgit.version>6.10.0.202406032230-r</jgit.version>
         <awaitility.version>4.2.1</awaitility.version>
 
         <!-- Kafka Connect -->
-        <connect.version>3.7.0</connect.version>
+        <connect.version>7.6.1-ce</connect.version>
 
         <!-- Specifications -->
         <annotation-api.version>1.3.5</annotation-api.version>
@@ -213,11 +213,11 @@
         <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.javadoc.plugin>3.7.0</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.checkstyle.plugin>3.3.1</version.checkstyle.plugin>
+        <version.checkstyle.plugin>3.4.0</version.checkstyle.plugin>
         <version.properties.plugin>1.2.1</version.properties.plugin>
         <version.dependency.plugin>3.6.1</version.dependency.plugin>
         <version.assembly.plugin>3.7.1</version.assembly.plugin>
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
         <version.maven-antrun.plugin>3.1.0</version.maven-antrun.plugin>
 
         <!-- Plugin Deps -->
-        <version.puppycrawl>8.45.1</version.puppycrawl>
+        <version.puppycrawl>10.17.0</version.puppycrawl>
 
         <!-- Protocol Buffers -->
         <proto-plugin.version>0.6.1</proto-plugin.version>
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
 
         <!-- Test containers version, should be aligned with version used in Quarkus -->
         <test-containers.version>1.19.7</test-containers.version>
-        <keycloak.testcontainers.version>1.9.0</keycloak.testcontainers.version>
+        <keycloak.testcontainers.version>2.1.1</keycloak.testcontainers.version>
         <keycloak-admin-client.version>21.1.2</keycloak-admin-client.version>
         <embedded-postgres.version>2.0.7</embedded-postgres.version>
         <strimzi.version>0.105.0</strimzi.version>
diff --git a/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml b/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml
index f0db0b84f1..908f6402e4 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>3.13.0</version>
+                <version>3.13.1</version>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>