diff --git a/nifi-commons/nifi-xml-processing/pom.xml b/nifi-commons/nifi-xml-processing/pom.xml
index bc464e32e8..91db4e1e99 100644
--- a/nifi-commons/nifi-xml-processing/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-commons/nifi-xml-processing/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
                 <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>4.6.0.0</version>
+                <version>4.7.3.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>package</phase>
diff --git a/nifi-h2/nifi-h2-database/pom.xml b/nifi-h2/nifi-h2-database/pom.xml
index c535e1de33..80a6f8f213 100644
--- a/nifi-h2/nifi-h2-database/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-h2/nifi-h2-database/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.2.4</version>
+                <version>3.4.1</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>compile</phase>
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-box-bundle/nifi-box-nar/pom.xml b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-box-bundle/nifi-box-nar/pom.xml
index 1675ed48be..dbeeb61885 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-box-bundle/nifi-box-nar/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-box-bundle/nifi-box-nar/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.8</version>
+                <version>2.0.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <!--
                         mvn clean license:add-third-party license:download-licenses
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-flume-bundle/nifi-flume-processors/pom.xml b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-flume-bundle/nifi-flume-processors/pom.xml
index 572bc664fb..7e77f73327 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-flume-bundle/nifi-flume-processors/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-flume-bundle/nifi-flume-processors/pom.xml
@@ -68,8 +68,19 @@
                     <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                     <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <!-- not allowed findbugs version pulled in by guava version - this should be fixed by flume... -->
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
+        <!-- pulled in to replace the not allowed version of findbugs -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.github.stephenc.findbugs</groupId>
+            <artifactId>findbugs-annotations</artifactId>
+            <version>1.3.9-1</version>
+        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Flume Sources -->
 
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-web/nifi-web-ui/pom.xml b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-web/nifi-web-ui/pom.xml
index 239b8e8e71..1177728715 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-web/nifi-web-ui/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-web/nifi-web-ui/pom.xml
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.0.0</version>
+                        <version>3.2.0</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <excludeDefaultDirectories>true</excludeDefaultDirectories>
                             <filesets>
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hive-bundle/nifi-hive3-processors/pom.xml b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hive-bundle/nifi-hive3-processors/pom.xml
index 8aa616f19b..a43e066c16 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hive-bundle/nifi-hive3-processors/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hive-bundle/nifi-hive3-processors/pom.xml
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@
                     <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
                     <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-scripting-bundle/nifi-scripting-processors/pom.xml b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-scripting-bundle/nifi-scripting-processors/pom.xml
index 0f99256815..65af30fe4d 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-scripting-bundle/nifi-scripting-processors/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-scripting-bundle/nifi-scripting-processors/pom.xml
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.3.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>copy</id>
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/pom.xml b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/pom.xml
index 5b11c197a5..f6d74402f8 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/pom.xml
@@ -762,7 +762,6 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>2.18</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <argLine>-Xmx3072M</argLine>
                         </configuration>
diff --git a/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-docs/pom.xml b/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-docs/pom.xml
index 39f952f0ff..78be229103 100644
--- a/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-docs/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-docs/pom.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.1.1</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>unpack-rest-api-doc</id>
diff --git a/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-web-api/pom.xml b/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-web-api/pom.xml
index fc204b1158..2b6821ceec 100644
--- a/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-web-api/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-web-api/pom.xml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.github.kongchen</groupId>
                 <artifactId>swagger-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.1.6</version>
+                <version>3.1.7</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>compile</phase>
diff --git a/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-extensions/nifi-registry-ranger/nifi-registry-ranger-jersey-bundle/pom.xml b/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-extensions/nifi-registry-ranger/nifi-registry-ranger-jersey-bundle/pom.xml
index bfbcfba6f4..93fd65f358 100644
--- a/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-extensions/nifi-registry-ranger/nifi-registry-ranger-jersey-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-registry/nifi-registry-extensions/nifi-registry-ranger/nifi-registry-ranger-jersey-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.3.0</version>
+                <version>3.4.1</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>package</phase>
diff --git a/nifi-registry/pom.xml b/nifi-registry/pom.xml
index 66d4399eee..d6ea808c51 100644
--- a/nifi-registry/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-registry/pom.xml
@@ -281,12 +281,11 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>2.9</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>2.7</version>
+                    <version>3.3.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
@@ -295,7 +294,6 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.3.0</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
                     </configuration>
@@ -318,12 +316,11 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.2.2</version>
+                    <version>3.3.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.1.1</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <failOnError>false</failOnError>
                         <quiet>true</quiet>
@@ -496,7 +493,6 @@
                         <plugin>
                             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                             <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-                            <version>3.1.1</version>
                             <configuration>
                                 <doclint>none</doclint>
                             </configuration>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c511ccc795..7a38c9fbd9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
         <json.smart.version>2.4.8</json.smart.version>
         <nifi.groovy.version>3.0.14</nifi.groovy.version>
         <groovy.eclipse.batch.version>3.0.8-01</groovy.eclipse.batch.version>
-        <surefire.version>3.0.0-M7</surefire.version>
+        <surefire.version>3.0.0-M8</surefire.version>
         <!-- The Hadoop version used by nifi-hadoop-libraries-nar and any NARs that depend on it, other NARs that need
             a specific version should override this property, or use a more specific property like abc.hadoop.version -->
         <hadoop.version>3.3.4</hadoop.version>
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                     <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.0.0</version>
+                    <version>3.1.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.0.0-M6</version>
+                    <version>3.0.0-M7</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <useReleaseProfile>true</useReleaseProfile>
                         <releaseProfiles>apache-release</releaseProfiles>
@@ -869,12 +869,12 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
                     <artifactId>antlr3-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.5.2</version>
+                    <version>3.5.3</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.2.0</version>
+                    <version>3.2.1</version>
                     <dependencies>
                         <dependency>
                             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
@@ -886,12 +886,12 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.3.0</version>
+                    <version>3.5.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
                     <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>0.14</version>
+                    <version>0.15</version>
                 </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </pluginManagement>
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.1.0</version>
+                <version>3.2.1</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>enforce-maven-version</id>
@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@
                                         <exclude>org.json:json:*:*:compile</exclude>
                                         <exclude>c3p0:c3p0:*:*:compile</exclude>
                                         <!-- Versions of JSR305 before 3.0.1 are not allowed https://github.com/findbugsproject/findbugs/issues/128 -->
-                                        <exclude>com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:*:*:compile</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:[,3.0.0]:compile</exclude>
                                         <!-- SLF4J routing to Log4j 1.2 is a runtime implementation that conflicts with Logback -->
                                         <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12</exclude>
                                         <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-reload4j</exclude>
@@ -1010,10 +1010,6 @@
                                         <!-- Exclude SSHD 2.9.1 and earlier due to CVE-2022-45047 -->
                                         <exclude>org.apache.sshd:*:[,2.9.1]</exclude>
                                     </excludes>
-                                    <includes>
-                                        <!-- Versions of JSR305 after 3.0.1 are allowed https://github.com/findbugsproject/findbugs/issues/128 -->
-                                        <include>com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:[3.0.0,)</include>
-                                    </includes>
                                 </bannedDependencies>
                             </rules>
                             <fail>true</fail>