diff --git a/artemis-protocols/artemis-amqp-protocol/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/protocol/amqp/util/NettyWritable.java b/artemis-protocols/artemis-amqp-protocol/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/protocol/amqp/util/NettyWritable.java
index 659f35f705..bf46e8143a 100644
--- a/artemis-protocols/artemis-amqp-protocol/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/protocol/amqp/util/NettyWritable.java
+++ b/artemis-protocols/artemis-amqp-protocol/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/protocol/amqp/util/NettyWritable.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.apache.activemq.artemis.protocol.amqp.util;
 
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
 import org.apache.qpid.proton.codec.ReadableBuffer;
 import org.apache.qpid.proton.codec.WritableBuffer;
@@ -103,6 +104,11 @@ public class NettyWritable implements WritableBuffer {
       nettyBuffer.writeBytes(payload);
    }
 
+   @Override
+   public void put(String value) {
+      nettyBuffer.writeCharSequence(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+   }
+
    @Override
    public int limit() {
       return nettyBuffer.capacity();
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fb95a5efc3..beb9dcd57f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -91,11 +91,12 @@
       <jgroups.version>3.6.13.Final</jgroups.version>
       <maven.assembly.plugin.version>2.4</maven.assembly.plugin.version>
       <mockito.version>2.8.47</mockito.version>
-      <netty.version>4.1.24.Final</netty.version>
-      <proton.version>0.27.3</proton.version>
+      <netty.version>4.1.28.Final</netty.version>
+      <netty-tcnative-version>2.0.12.Final</netty-tcnative-version>
+      <proton.version>0.29.0</proton.version>
       <resteasy.version>3.0.19.Final</resteasy.version>
       <slf4j.version>1.7.21</slf4j.version>
-      <qpid.jms.version>0.33.0</qpid.jms.version>
+      <qpid.jms.version>0.36.0</qpid.jms.version>
       <johnzon.version>0.9.5</johnzon.version>
       <json-p.spec.version>1.0-alpha-1</json-p.spec.version>
       <javax.inject.version>1</javax.inject.version>
diff --git a/tests/unit-tests/pom.xml b/tests/unit-tests/pom.xml
index 3f00b6ef10..58d1678b1f 100644
--- a/tests/unit-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/tests/unit-tests/pom.xml
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
          <artifactId>netty-tcnative-boringssl-static</artifactId>
-         <version>2.0.7.Final</version>
+         <version>${netty-tcnative-version}</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>