diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index affddfb79520..19c4c42807df 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>io.airlift</groupId>
         <artifactId>airbase</artifactId>
-        <version>160</version>
+        <version>163</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>io.trino</groupId>
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
         <!-- keep dependency properties sorted -->
         <dep.accumulo-hadoop.version>2.7.7-1</dep.accumulo-hadoop.version>
         <dep.accumulo.version>3.0.0</dep.accumulo.version>
-        <dep.airlift.version>259</dep.airlift.version>
+        <dep.airlift.version>260</dep.airlift.version>
         <dep.alluxio.version>2.9.6</dep.alluxio.version>
         <dep.antlr.version>4.13.2</dep.antlr.version>
         <dep.avro.version>1.12.0</dep.avro.version>
@@ -926,6 +926,13 @@
                 <version>${dep.tcnative.version}</version>
             </dependency>
 
+            <!-- temporary to settle a version between airbase and airlift -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.opentelemetry.semconv</groupId>
+                <artifactId>opentelemetry-semconv</artifactId>
+                <version>${dep.opentelemetry-semconv-incubating.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
                 <artifactId>reactor-core</artifactId>
@@ -2407,15 +2414,6 @@
                     <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
                     <configuration>
                         <rules>
-                            <requireUpperBoundDeps>
-                                <excludes combine.children="append">
-                                    <!-- TODO: fix this in Airlift resolver -->
-                                    <exclude>org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils</exclude>
-                                    <exclude>com.google.guava:guava</exclude>
-                                    <exclude>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core</exclude>
-                                    <exclude>com.google.j2objc:j2objc-annotations</exclude>
-                                </excludes>
-                            </requireUpperBoundDeps>
                             <bannedDependencies>
                                 <excludes combine.children="append">
                                     <!-- We don't use log4j2, additionally versions < 2.15.0 are vulnerable to the RCE Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) -->