diff --git a/client/pom.xml b/client/pom.xml
index b7b03cd01b..f4211680c9 100644
--- a/client/pom.xml
+++ b/client/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>apicurio-registry-client</artifactId>
     <properties>
-        <kiota.libs.version>0.7.8</kiota.libs.version>
+        <kiota.libs.version>0.8.0</kiota.libs.version>
     </properties>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/operator/model/pom.xml b/operator/model/pom.xml
index 5110ce8f84..554bbfddee 100644
--- a/operator/model/pom.xml
+++ b/operator/model/pom.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.jboss.jandex</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jandex-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.1.1</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$ -->
+                <version>1.2.3</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$ -->
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>make-index</id>
diff --git a/operator/pom.xml b/operator/pom.xml
index 663459a2b9..b12ce100ae 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>6.3.4</quarkus.operator.sdk.version>
         <quarkus.container-image.group>apicurio</quarkus.container-image.group>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c74f973597..ecad6ceee0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -155,15 +155,15 @@
         <quarkus.version>3.4.3</quarkus.version>
 
         <!-- Jandex -->
-        <jandex.version>1.2.1</jandex.version>
+        <jandex.version>1.2.3</jandex.version>
 
         <!-- Schema types -->
         <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.version>
         <wire-schema.version>4.9.1</wire-schema.version>
-        <wire-compiler.version>4.8.0</wire-compiler.version>
+        <wire-compiler.version>4.9.1</wire-compiler.version>
         <okio-jvm.version>3.6.0</okio-jvm.version>
         <okio.version>3.6.0</okio.version>
-        <okio-fake-file-system.version>3.4.0</okio-fake-file-system.version>
+        <okio-fake-file-system.version>3.6.0</okio-fake-file-system.version>
         <icu4j.version>74.1</icu4j.version>
         <protobuf.version>3.25.0</protobuf.version>
         <xmlsec.version>4.0.0</xmlsec.version>
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
         <picocli.version>4.6.3</picocli.version>
 
         <!-- Confluent API / client -->
-        <confluent.version>7.5.1</confluent.version>
+        <confluent.version>7.5.2</confluent.version>
 
         <!-- Default Quarkus configuration profile -->
         <quarkus.profile>dev</quarkus.profile>
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 
         <!-- JSON Schema Validator -->
         <org.everit.json.schema.version>1.14.3</org.everit.json.schema.version><!-- TODO unification -->
-        <jackson-datatype-json-org.version>2.15.2</jackson-datatype-json-org.version>
+        <jackson-datatype-json-org.version>2.15.3</jackson-datatype-json-org.version>
         <jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>2.14.2</jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>
 
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
         <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>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
         <awaitility.version>4.2.0</awaitility.version>
 
         <!-- Kafka Connect -->
-        <connect.version>3.5.1</connect.version>
+        <connect.version>7.5.2-ce</connect.version>
 
         <!-- Specifications -->
         <annotation-api.version>1.3.5</annotation-api.version>
@@ -229,10 +229,10 @@
         <!-- Plugin Versions -->
         <version.compiler.plugin>3.11.0</version.compiler.plugin>
         <version.deploy.plugin>3.1.1</version.deploy.plugin>
-        <version.failsafe.plugin>3.2.1</version.failsafe.plugin>
-        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.6.0</version.javadoc.plugin>
+        <version.failsafe.plugin>3.2.2</version.failsafe.plugin>
+        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.6.2</version.javadoc.plugin>
         <version.source.plugin>3.3.0</version.source.plugin>
-        <version.surefire.plugin>3.2.1</version.surefire.plugin>
+        <version.surefire.plugin>3.2.2</version.surefire.plugin>
         <version.jar.plugin>3.3.0</version.jar.plugin>
         <version.checkstyle.plugin>3.3.1</version.checkstyle.plugin>
         <version.properties.plugin>1.2.1</version.properties.plugin>
diff --git a/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml b/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml
index 7b4f3843d1..fb863e54c0 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>7.5.1</version>
+            <version>7.5.2</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.jboss.jandex</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jandex-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.1.0</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$-->
+                <version>1.2.3</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$-->
                 <executions>
                   <execution>
                     <id>make-index</id>
diff --git a/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml b/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml
index eea816c146..05411cae05 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>3.10.1</version>
+                <version>3.10.2</version>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>