diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dd926c7..caaa59b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
         <spring.boot.version>2.7.18</spring.boot.version>
         <!-- Logging -->
         <slf4j.version>2.0.17</slf4j.version>
-        <log4j.version>2.24.3</log4j.version>
+        <log4j.version>2.25.0</log4j.version>
         <!-- Serialization -->
         <jackson.version>2.19.1</jackson.version>
         <!-- Other -->
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
         <junit.jupiter.version>5.13.1</junit.jupiter.version>
         <mockito.version>4.11.0</mockito.version>
         <!-- Build / Plugins -->
-        <central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>0.7.0</central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>
+        <central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>0.8.0</central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>
         <jacoco-maven.version>0.8.13</jacoco-maven.version>
         <maven-assembly.version>3.7.1</maven-assembly.version>
         <maven-clean.version>3.5.0</maven-clean.version>
diff --git a/tracing-spring-boot-starter/pom.xml b/tracing-spring-boot-starter/pom.xml
index fd3e0e8..af797a8 100644
--- a/tracing-spring-boot-starter/pom.xml
+++ b/tracing-spring-boot-starter/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <!-- plugins -->
-        <central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>0.7.0</central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>
+        <central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>0.8.0</central-publishing-maven-plugin.version>
         <maven-clean.version>3.5.0</maven-clean.version>
         <maven-install.version>3.1.4</maven-install.version>
         <maven-resources.version>3.3.1</maven-resources.version>