diff --git a/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/pom.xml b/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/pom.xml
index 8506eb6..e523f11 100644
--- a/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/pom.xml
+++ b/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     <artifactId>haystack-agent-kinesis-dispatcher</artifactId>
 
     <properties>
-        <aws.kinesis.producer.lib.version>0.14.0</aws.kinesis.producer.lib.version>
+        <aws.kinesis.producer.lib.version>0.15.12</aws.kinesis.producer.lib.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/src/main/java/com/expedia/www/haystack/agent/dispatcher/KinesisDispatcher.java b/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/src/main/java/com/expedia/www/haystack/agent/dispatcher/KinesisDispatcher.java
index 40f084f..86a7db7 100644
--- a/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/src/main/java/com/expedia/www/haystack/agent/dispatcher/KinesisDispatcher.java
+++ b/agent-dispatchers/kinesis/src/main/java/com/expedia/www/haystack/agent/dispatcher/KinesisDispatcher.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.FutureCallback;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
+import com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
 import com.typesafe.config.Config;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate;
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ public void onFailure(final Throwable throwable) {
                             formatAttempts(result.getAttempts()), e);
                 }
             }
-        });
+        }, MoreExecutors.directExecutor());
     }
 
     private String formatAttempts(final List<Attempt> attempts) {
diff --git a/agent-providers/span/pom.xml b/agent-providers/span/pom.xml
index 727efd6..953b3b2 100644
--- a/agent-providers/span/pom.xml
+++ b/agent-providers/span/pom.xml
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
+    <properties>
+        <okhttp.version>2.7.5</okhttp.version>
+    </properties>
+
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.expedia.www</groupId>
@@ -33,6 +37,12 @@
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp</groupId>
+            <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
+            <version>${okhttp.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/api/pom.xml b/api/pom.xml
index 2d4022f..a9b7b47 100644
--- a/api/pom.xml
+++ b/api/pom.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
                             <goal>run</goal>
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
-                            <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.0.0</protocArtifact>
+                            <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}</protocArtifact>
                             <includeDirectories>
                                 <include>${project.basedir}/../haystack-idl/proto</include>
                                 <include>${project.basedir}/../haystack-idl/proto/api</include>
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
                                 </outputTarget>
                                 <outputTarget>
                                     <type>grpc-java</type>
-                                    <pluginArtifact>io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.0.1</pluginArtifact>
+                                    <pluginArtifact>io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.68.2</pluginArtifact>
                                 </outputTarget>
                             </outputTargets>
                         </configuration>
diff --git a/bundlers/haystack-agent/pom.xml b/bundlers/haystack-agent/pom.xml
index d487f69..18acfe9 100644
--- a/bundlers/haystack-agent/pom.xml
+++ b/bundlers/haystack-agent/pom.xml
@@ -51,11 +51,23 @@
             <groupId>com.expedia.www</groupId>
             <artifactId>blobs-agent-dispatchers</artifactId>
             <version>${blobs.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.expedia.www</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>haystack-agent-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.expedia.www</groupId>
             <artifactId>blobs-agent-server</artifactId>
             <version>${blobs.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.expedia.www</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>haystack-agent-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <!-- grpc -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 578d25d..96785f6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -68,20 +68,19 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.jdk.version>1.8</project.jdk.version>
-        <protobuf.version>3.4.0</protobuf.version>
-        <logback.version>1.2.3</logback.version>
-        <slf4j-api.version>1.7.25</slf4j-api.version>
-        <jackson.version>2.9.10.4</jackson.version>
-        <jackson-dataformat.version>2.9.10</jackson-dataformat.version>
-        <commons-lang.version>3.4</commons-lang.version>
-        <grpc.version>1.9.0</grpc.version>
+        <protobuf.version>3.25.5</protobuf.version>
+        <logback.version>1.2.13</logback.version>
+        <slf4j-api.version>1.7.36</slf4j-api.version>
+        <jackson.version>2.13.5</jackson.version>
+        <commons-lang.version>3.17.0</commons-lang.version>
+        <grpc.version>1.68.2</grpc.version>
         <metrics-core.version>3.2.5</metrics-core.version>
         <jaxb.version>2.3.0</jaxb.version>
         <javax.activation.version>1.1.1</javax.activation.version>
         <blobs.version>1.0.3</blobs.version>
 
-        <jetty.version>9.4.18.v20190429</jetty.version>
-        <zipkin2.version>2.15.0</zipkin2.version>
+        <jetty.version>9.4.56.v20240826</jetty.version>
+        <zipkin2.version>2.27.1</zipkin2.version>
         <scala.major.version>2</scala.major.version>
         <scala.minor.version>12</scala.minor.version>
         <scala.tiny.version>6</scala.tiny.version>
@@ -93,9 +92,9 @@
         <easymock.version>3.6</easymock.version>
         <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
 
-        <aws-sdk.version>1.11.128</aws-sdk.version>
+        <aws-sdk.version>1.12.779</aws-sdk.version>
         <typesafe-config.version>1.3.1</typesafe-config.version>
-        <commons-io.version>2.6</commons-io.version>
+        <commons-io.version>2.18.0</commons-io.version>
 
         <maven-pmd-plugin.version>3.0.1</maven-pmd-plugin.version>
         <pmd.version>5.1.3</pmd.version>
@@ -180,30 +179,25 @@
             </dependency>
 
             <dependency>
-                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
-                <version>${jackson-dataformat.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jackson-bom</artifactId>
                 <version>${jackson.version}</version>
+                <scope>import</scope>
+                <type>pom</type>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-                <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-sts</artifactId>
+                <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-bom</artifactId>
                 <version>${aws-sdk.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
-                <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+                <scope>import</scope>
+                <type>pom</type>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
+                <artifactId>jetty-bom</artifactId>
                 <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+                <scope>import</scope>
+                <type>pom</type>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>io.zipkin.zipkin2</groupId>