diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d9d5fa68b..1957c7b44 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ pgjdbc-ng is released under the 3 clause BSD license.
 #### Building
 The driver is built with Gradle. To build & test, execute:
 
-	./gradlew clean build.
+	./gradlew clean build
 
 This will produce, in the `driver/build/libs` directory, two JAR files. One with dependencies
 packaged inside (`pgjdbg-nc-all-<VERSION>`) and another without (`pgjdbc-ng-VERSION`).
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ Alternatively, to build the driver without testing you can execute:
 
     ./gradlew clean assemble  
 
+And to do the same and publish to your local maven repository you can execute:
+
+	./gradlew clean assemble publishToMavenLocal
+
 #### Testing
 
 The unit tests need a PostgreSQL database to execute against. The build will start a [Docker](https://docker.com)
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt
index e448f2a0c..768a3db31 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt
@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ object Versions {
    * Source
    */
   val javaTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
-  const val kotlin = "1.9.10"
+  const val kotlin = "2.0.0"
 
   /**
    * Required Libraries
    */
-  const val netty = "4.1.100.Final"
+  const val netty = "4.1.109.Final"
 
   /**
    * Tooling Libraries
    */
   const val javaPoet = "1.13.0"
   const val argParser = "2.0.7"
-  const val asciidoctorJ = "2.5.10"
+  const val asciidoctorJ = "2.5.13"
 
   /**
    * Testing dependencies