diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-servlet-jakarta-test/pom.xml b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-servlet-jakarta-test/pom.xml
index d7631c7119..33194dc268 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-servlet-jakarta-test/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-servlet-jakarta-test/pom.xml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-            <version>2.0.0-alpha0</version>
+            <version>2.0.0-alpha5</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4ada1fe0c2..9729073988 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
         <version.junit-vintage-engine>5.8.1</version.junit-vintage-engine>
         <version.logback>1.2.3</version.logback>
         <version.okhttp>4.9.1</version.okhttp>
-        <version.slf4j>1.7.32</version.slf4j>
+        <version.slf4j>2.0.0-alpha5</version.slf4j>
         <!-- this is the last version of log4j that is compatible with Java 7. Due to a known vulnerability
         (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9488#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle), the SMTP appender is
          excluded from the build and not packaged into the agent artifacts -->