diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ed6a4de..8e1de87 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
         <artifactId>common-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>7.9.0-610</version>
+        <version>7.9.0-736</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>io.confluent.kafka.connect</groupId>
@@ -30,18 +30,18 @@
 
 
     <properties>
-        <commons.compress.version>1.26.0</commons.compress.version>
+        <commons.compress.version>1.27.1</commons.compress.version>
         <connect-runtime-version>2.0.0</connect-runtime-version>
         <confluent.avro.generator.version>0.4.1</confluent.avro.generator.version>
         <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
-        <guava.version>32.0.1-jre</guava.version>
-        <jackson.version>2.15.2</jackson.version>
+        <guava.version>32.1.3-jre</guava.version>
+        <jackson.version>2.18.2</jackson.version>
         <maven.release.plugin.version>2.5.3</maven.release.plugin.version>
         <!-- temporary fix by pinning the version until we upgrade to a version of common that contains this or newer version.
             See https://github.com/confluentinc/common/pull/332 for details -->
         <dependency.check.version>6.1.6</dependency.check.version>
         <hamcrest.version>2.2</hamcrest.version>
-        <snappy.java.version>1.1.10.5</snappy.java.version>
+        <snappy.java.version>1.1.10.7</snappy.java.version>
     </properties>
 
     <name>kafka-connect-datagen</name>
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
                 <artifactId>kafka-connect-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>0.11.1</version>
+                <version>0.12.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                             <goals>
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                         <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.2.1</version>
+                        <version>1.6.0</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>create-licenses</id>
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
                     </plugin>
                     <plugin>
                         <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.0.0</version>
+                        <version>3.4.0</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <filesets>
                                 <fileset>