diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 489fc9d64..a07ce132c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
-    <BUILD_NUMBER></BUILD_NUMBER>
+    <BUILD_NUMBER/>
     <maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyyMMdd-HHmm</maven.build.timestamp.format>
     <build.timestamp>${maven.build.timestamp}</build.timestamp>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     <slf4j-version>1.7.36</slf4j-version>
     <!-- Care must be taken when updating the prometheus client lib version
          since we have some custom optimized extensions to this -->
-    <prometheus-version>0.9.0</prometheus-version>
+    <prometheus-version>0.16.0</prometheus-version>
     <bouncycastle-version>1.70</bouncycastle-version>
     <junit-version>5.9.3</junit-version>
 
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
                     </goals>
                   </pluginExecutionFilter>
                   <action>
-                    <ignore></ignore>
+                    <ignore/>
                   </action>
                 </pluginExecution>
               </pluginExecutions>