diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index aed3d3f..526b0f3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -117,12 +117,12 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
       <artifactId>spotbugs-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>4.8.5</version>
+      <version>4.8.6</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-      <version>33.2.0-jre</version>
+      <version>33.3.1-jre</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
@@ -144,12 +144,12 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.twelvemonkeys.imageio</groupId>
       <artifactId>imageio-jpeg</artifactId>
-      <version>3.10.1</version>
+      <version>3.12.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.twelvemonkeys.imageio</groupId>
       <artifactId>imageio-tiff</artifactId>
-      <version>3.10.1</version>
+      <version>3.12.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>de.digitalcollections.commons</groupId>
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>net.logstash.logback</groupId>
       <artifactId>logstash-logback-encoder</artifactId>
-      <version>7.3</version>
+      <version>7.4</version>
       <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>com.spotify.fmt</groupId>
         <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.23</version>
+        <version>2.25</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <goals>
@@ -381,13 +381,13 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
         <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>4.8.5.0</version>
+        <version>4.8.6.6</version>
         <dependencies>
           <!-- overwrite dependency on spotbugs if you want to specify the version of spotbugs -->
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
             <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-            <version>4.8.5</version>
+            <version>4.8.6</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <executions>
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.2.5</version>
+        <version>3.5.2</version>
         <configuration>
           <excludedGroups>${excludeTags}</excludedGroups>
         </configuration>
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.13</version>
+        <version>1.7.0</version>
         <extensions>true</extensions>
         <configuration>
           <serverId>ossrh</serverId>
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@
           <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>