diff --git a/spark-4.0.yaml b/spark-4.0.yaml
index 6f4d0ad594f..55e3edc7944 100644
--- a/spark-4.0.yaml
+++ b/spark-4.0.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package:
   name: spark-4.0
   version: "4.0.0"
-  epoch: 0
+  epoch: 1
   description: Unified engine for large-scale data analytics
   copyright:
     - license: Apache-2.0
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ pipeline:
       expected-commit: fa33ea000a0bda9e5a3fa1af98e8e85b8cc5e4d4
       tag: v${{package.version}}
 
+  - uses: maven/pombump
+
 subpackages:
   - name: ${{package.name}}-scala-${{vars.scala-version}}
     dependencies:
diff --git a/spark-4.0/pombump-deps.yaml b/spark-4.0/pombump-deps.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..67736a8631f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark-4.0/pombump-deps.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+patches:
+    - groupId: org.apache.avro
+      artifactId: avro
+      version: 1.11.3