diff --git a/common/pom.xml b/common/pom.xml
index 443dd82aab..fda4af6a14 100644
--- a/common/pom.xml
+++ b/common/pom.xml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>io.apicurio</groupId>
                 <artifactId>apicurio-data-models</artifactId>
-                <version>2.0.4</version>
+                <version>2.1.0</version>
                 <scope>compile</scope>
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
diff --git a/examples/avro-bean/pom.xml b/examples/avro-bean/pom.xml
index d7f10cbfee..48c1bc2eb0 100644
--- a/examples/avro-bean/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/avro-bean/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
diff --git a/examples/confluent-serdes/pom.xml b/examples/confluent-serdes/pom.xml
index fe4795b710..351ba3a7cd 100644
--- a/examples/confluent-serdes/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/confluent-serdes/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
diff --git a/examples/custom-resolver/pom.xml b/examples/custom-resolver/pom.xml
index 869a5c4954..c43672ea45 100644
--- a/examples/custom-resolver/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/custom-resolver/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/examples/custom-strategy/pom.xml b/examples/custom-strategy/pom.xml
index 1ee3664247..751a621639 100644
--- a/examples/custom-strategy/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/custom-strategy/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/examples/mix-avro/pom.xml b/examples/mix-avro/pom.xml
index 6b50d339e7..8b4058d668 100644
--- a/examples/mix-avro/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/mix-avro/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index 36ee08be05..5aa6d0f4f2 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -71,45 +71,45 @@
         <!-- Quarkus -->
         <quarkus.platform.group-id>io.quarkus</quarkus.platform.group-id>
         <quarkus.platform.artifact-id>quarkus-universe-bom</quarkus.platform.artifact-id>
-        <quarkus.platform.version>2.7.5.Final</quarkus.platform.version>
+        <quarkus.platform.version>3.13.3</quarkus.platform.version>
         <quarkus-plugin.version>${quarkus.platform.version}</quarkus-plugin.version>
 
         <!-- Kafka -->
-        <kafka.version>2.8.1</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>7.7.0-ce</kafka.version>
 
         <!-- Confluent API / client -->
-        <confluent.version>5.5.1</confluent.version>
+        <confluent.version>7.7.0</confluent.version>
 
         <!-- RestEasy -->
         <resteasy.version>4.5.8.Final</resteasy.version>
 
         <!-- Slf4j -->
-        <slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>
+        <slf4j.version>2.0.16</slf4j.version>
 
         <!-- Vert.x version -->
         <vertx.version>3.9.5</vertx.version>
 
         <!-- Apicurio REST client-->
-        <apicurio-common-rest-client.version>0.1.14.Final</apicurio-common-rest-client.version>
+        <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 -->
         <quarkus-plugin.version>${quarkus.platform.version}</quarkus-plugin.version>
 
-        <version.compiler.plugin>3.8.1</version.compiler.plugin>
-        <version.deploy.plugin>2.8.2</version.deploy.plugin>
-        <version.failsafe.plugin>2.22.2</version.failsafe.plugin>
-        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.2.0</version.javadoc.plugin>
-        <version.source.plugin>3.2.1</version.source.plugin>
-        <version.surefire.plugin>2.22.2</version.surefire.plugin>
-        <version.jar.plugin>3.2.0</version.jar.plugin>
-        <version.properties.plugin>1.0.0</version.properties.plugin>
-        <version.dependency.plugin>3.1.2</version.dependency.plugin>
-        <version.assembly.plugin>3.3.0</version.assembly.plugin>
-        <version.resources.plugin>3.2.0</version.resources.plugin>
-        <version.clean.plugin>3.1.0</version.clean.plugin>
+        <version.compiler.plugin>3.13.0</version.compiler.plugin>
+        <version.deploy.plugin>3.1.3</version.deploy.plugin>
+        <version.failsafe.plugin>3.4.0</version.failsafe.plugin>
+        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.8.0</version.javadoc.plugin>
+        <version.source.plugin>3.3.1</version.source.plugin>
+        <version.surefire.plugin>3.4.0</version.surefire.plugin>
+        <version.jar.plugin>3.4.2</version.jar.plugin>
+        <version.properties.plugin>1.2.1</version.properties.plugin>
+        <version.dependency.plugin>3.8.0</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>
         <version.avro>1.11.0</version.avro>
         <protobuf.version>3.21.6</protobuf.version>
         <!-- Proto -->
diff --git a/examples/protobuf-bean/pom.xml b/examples/protobuf-bean/pom.xml
index cbd5a61841..23d6a67d19 100644
--- a/examples/protobuf-bean/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/protobuf-bean/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/examples/protobuf-find-latest/pom.xml b/examples/protobuf-find-latest/pom.xml
index 0be21fd809..c7fcbc90e7 100644
--- a/examples/protobuf-find-latest/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/protobuf-find-latest/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/examples/protobuf-validation/pom.xml b/examples/protobuf-validation/pom.xml
index 5d9fa8b81c..680664d21c 100644
--- a/examples/protobuf-validation/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/protobuf-validation/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
                 <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.6.2</version>
+                <version>1.7.1</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>initialize</phase>
diff --git a/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml b/examples/serdes-with-references/pom.xml
index 935213f630..d9f59979e2 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>4.27.3</protobuf.version>
         <proto-plugin.version>0.6.1</proto-plugin.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.7.4</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.43.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.10.0</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
                 <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.6.2</version>
+                <version>1.7.1</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>initialize</phase>
diff --git a/examples/simple-avro-maven/pom.xml b/examples/simple-avro-maven/pom.xml
index 6a8b55cd95..4f942ee41b 100644
--- a/examples/simple-avro-maven/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/simple-avro-maven/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
diff --git a/examples/simple-avro/pom.xml b/examples/simple-avro/pom.xml
index ef43086ec7..979d48f0bd 100644
--- a/examples/simple-avro/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/simple-avro/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/examples/simple-json/pom.xml b/examples/simple-json/pom.xml
index ad422a79f6..7e68f4d714 100644
--- a/examples/simple-json/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/simple-json/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/examples/simple-protobuf/pom.xml b/examples/simple-protobuf/pom.xml
index a33e92a6f3..bcb4b2646d 100644
--- a/examples/simple-protobuf/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/simple-protobuf/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.1</version>
+            <version>0.15.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/examples/simple-validation/pom.xml b/examples/simple-validation/pom.xml
index 7946338445..f83585c79d 100644
--- a/examples/simple-validation/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/simple-validation/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.everit.json</groupId>
             <artifactId>org.everit.json.schema</artifactId>
-            <version>1.3.0</version>
+            <version>1.5.1</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2e3f0c9d2b..527b1a4ba5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -151,32 +151,32 @@
         <node.version>16.17.0</node.version>
 
         <!-- Quarkus Version -->
-        <quarkus.version>3.2.12.Final</quarkus.version>
+        <quarkus.version>3.14.0</quarkus.version>
 
         <!-- Jandex -->
         <jandex.version>1.2.3</jandex.version>
 
         <!-- Schema types -->
-        <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.version>
-        <json-schema-validator.version>1.4.0</json-schema-validator.version>
-        <vertx-json-schema.version>4.5.7</vertx-json-schema.version>
-        <wire-schema.version>4.9.9</wire-schema.version>
-        <wire-compiler.version>4.9.9</wire-compiler.version>
+        <avro.version>1.12.0</avro.version>
+        <json-schema-validator.version>1.5.1</json-schema-validator.version>
+        <vertx-json-schema.version>4.5.9</vertx-json-schema.version>
+        <wire-schema.version>5.0.0</wire-schema.version>
+        <wire-compiler.version>5.0.0</wire-compiler.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>75.1</icu4j.version>
-        <protobuf.version>3.25.3</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>4.27.3</protobuf.version>
         <xmlsec.version>4.0.2</xmlsec.version>
-        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.38.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
+        <protobuf.googleapi.types.version>2.43.0</protobuf.googleapi.types.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.3</wsdl4j.version>
-        <google.truth.extension.version>1.4.2</google.truth.extension.version>
+        <google.truth.extension.version>1.4.4</google.truth.extension.version>
 
         <!-- Picocli -->
         <picocli.version>4.6.3</picocli.version>
 
         <!-- Confluent API / client -->
-        <confluent.version>7.6.1</confluent.version>
+        <confluent.version>7.7.0</confluent.version>
 
         <!-- Default Quarkus configuration profile -->
         <quarkus.profile>dev</quarkus.profile>
@@ -191,69 +191,69 @@
         <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>2.1.0</apicurio-data-models.version>
 
         <!-- Apicurio Tenant Manager -->
         <apicurio-tenant-manager.version>0.2.0.Final</apicurio-tenant-manager.version>
 
         <!-- GraphQL -->
-        <graphql.version>22.0</graphql.version>
+        <graphql.version>22.2</graphql.version>
 
         <!-- JSON Schema Validator -->
         <org.everit.json.schema.version>1.14.4</org.everit.json.schema.version>
         <org.json>20240303</org.json>
-        <jackson.version>2.15.2</jackson.version>
+        <jackson.version>2.17.2</jackson.version>
 
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
-        <lombok.version>1.18.32</lombok.version>
+        <lombok.version>1.18.34</lombok.version>
         <h2.version>1.4.199</h2.version>
-        <commons-codec.version>1.16.1</commons-codec.version>
+        <commons-codec.version>1.17.1</commons-codec.version>
         <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>0.2.7.Final</apicurio-common-app-components.version>
         <sentry.version>1.7.30</sentry.version>
         <kafka-oauth-client.version>0.15.0</kafka-oauth-client.version>
-        <kafka-clients.version>3.5.1</kafka-clients.version>
-        <guava.version>33.1.0-jre</guava.version>
-        <woodstox-core.version>6.6.2</woodstox-core.version>
+        <kafka-clients.version>7.7.0-ce</kafka-clients.version>
+        <guava.version>33.3.0-jre</guava.version>
+        <woodstox-core.version>7.0.0</woodstox-core.version>
 
         <!-- Kafka Connect -->
-        <connect.version>3.6.1</connect.version>
+        <connect.version>7.7.0-ce</connect.version>
 
         <!-- Specifications -->
         <annotation-api.version>1.3.5</annotation-api.version>
 
         <!-- Scala -->
         <version.scala-maven.plugin>4.4.0</version.scala-maven.plugin>
-        <scala.version>2.13.13</scala.version>
+        <scala.version>2.13.14</scala.version>
 
         <!-- Plugin Versions -->
         <version.compiler.plugin>3.13.0</version.compiler.plugin>
-        <version.deploy.plugin>3.1.1</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>3.4.0</version.failsafe.plugin>
+        <version.javadoc.plugin>3.8.0</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.surefire.plugin>3.4.0</version.surefire.plugin>
+        <version.jar.plugin>3.4.2</version.jar.plugin>
+        <version.checkstyle.plugin>3.5.0</version.checkstyle.plugin>
         <version.properties.plugin>1.2.1</version.properties.plugin>
-        <version.dependency.plugin>3.6.1</version.dependency.plugin>
+        <version.dependency.plugin>3.8.0</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.frontend-maven.plugin>1.15.0</version.frontend-maven.plugin>
         <version.maven-antrun.plugin>3.1.0</version.maven-antrun.plugin>
 
         <!-- Plugin Deps -->
-        <version.puppycrawl>10.15.0</version.puppycrawl>
+        <version.puppycrawl>10.18.0</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>
+        <test-containers.version>1.20.1</test-containers.version>
         <embedded-postgres.version>2.0.7</embedded-postgres.version>
         <strimzi.version>0.105.0</strimzi.version>
         <wiremock-jre8.version>2.35.2</wiremock-jre8.version>
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
                     <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>4.9.0</version>
+                    <version>4.9.2</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <recompileMode>incremental</recompileMode>
                         <args>
@@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.2.4</version>
+                        <version>3.2.5</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>sign-artifacts</id>
diff --git a/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml b/utils/exportConfluent/pom.xml
index 9502239fb2..276e05d144 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>7.7.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     
diff --git a/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml b/utils/maven-plugin/pom.xml
index 9a43e1a9c9..cddc8e90e0 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>3.14.0</version>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>