diff --git a/eclipse-collections-code-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml b/eclipse-collections-code-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
index 7ff56c9140..2288640ae6 100644
--- a/eclipse-collections-code-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/eclipse-collections-code-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -46,21 +46,21 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
-            <version>3.9.0</version>
+            <version>3.9.9</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
-            <version>3.9.0</version>
+            <version>3.15.0</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
+            <version>3.9.9</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
diff --git a/jcstress-tests/pom.xml b/jcstress-tests/pom.xml
index 2c7c42af3b..cbe9b66fa7 100644
--- a/jcstress-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/jcstress-tests/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     <properties>
         <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
         <sonar.skip>true</sonar.skip>
-        <jcstress.version>0.15</jcstress.version>
+        <jcstress.version>0.16</jcstress.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/performance-tests/pom.xml b/performance-tests/pom.xml
index 108eeb487c..0cc915aa26 100644
--- a/performance-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/performance-tests/pom.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
             <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
-            <version>1.4.14</version>
+            <version>1.5.8</version>
         </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1a678ce40f..a61f52077a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -115,15 +115,15 @@ Arrays, Maps or Strings. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk co
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 
-        <slf4j.version>2.0.7</slf4j.version>
+        <slf4j.version>2.0.16</slf4j.version>
         <clover.version>4.4.1</clover.version>
-        <scala.version>2.12.19</scala.version>
+        <scala.version>2.13.15</scala.version>
         <guava.version>33.1.0-jre</guava.version>
         <trove4j.version>3.1.0</trove4j.version>
         <koloboke.version>1.0.0</koloboke.version>
         <hppc.version>0.9.1</hppc.version>
         <commons.lang.version>3.14.0</commons.lang.version>
-        <checkstyle.version>10.16.0</checkstyle.version>
+        <checkstyle.version>10.18.2</checkstyle.version>
         <checkstyle.plugin.version>3.5.0</checkstyle.plugin.version>
         <jacoco.plugin.version>0.8.8</jacoco.plugin.version>
         <junit.version>4.13.2</junit.version>
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ Arrays, Maps or Strings. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk co
         <project.previous.version>11.0.0</project.previous.version>
     </properties>
 
+
     <pluginRepositories>
 
         <pluginRepository>
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ Arrays, Maps or Strings. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk co
 
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.1.2</version>
+                    <version>3.8.1</version>
                 </plugin>
 
                 <plugin>
@@ -727,7 +728,7 @@ Arrays, Maps or Strings. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk co
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.2.4</version>
+                        <version>3.2.7</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>sign-artifacts</id>
@@ -1164,7 +1165,7 @@ Arrays, Maps or Strings. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk co
                     <plugins>
                         <plugin>
                             <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                            <version>3.1.2</version>
+                            <version>3.8.1</version>
                             <configuration>
                                 <failOnWarning>true</failOnWarning>
                                 <ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependencies>