diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 210333c13..bee20b1be 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 		<springdata.commons>3.4.0-SNAPSHOT</springdata.commons>
 
 		<!-- version of the ElasticsearchClient	-->
-		<elasticsearch-java>8.15.0</elasticsearch-java>
+		<elasticsearch-java>8.15.3</elasticsearch-java>
 
 		<hoverfly>0.19.0</hoverfly>
 		<log4j>2.23.1</log4j>
diff --git a/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-new.adoc b/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-new.adoc
index 9f9df308a..5eb6ae594 100644
--- a/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-new.adoc
+++ b/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-new.adoc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 [[new-features.5-4-0]]
 == New in Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.4
 
-* Upgrade to Elasticsearch 8.15.0.
+* Upgrade to Elasticsearch 8.15.3.
 * Allow to customize the mapped type name for `@InnerField` and `@Field` annotations.
 * Support for Elasticsearch SQL.
 * Add support for retrieving request executionDuration.    
diff --git a/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/versions.adoc b/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/versions.adoc
index 7deac45f9..50f11a802 100644
--- a/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/versions.adoc
+++ b/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/elasticsearch/versions.adoc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The following table shows the Elasticsearch and Spring versions that are used by
 [cols="^,^,^,^",options="header"]
 |===
 | Spring Data Release Train | Spring Data Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch | Spring Framework
-| 2024.1 (in development) | 5.3.x | 8.15.0 | 6.1.x
+| 2024.1 (in development) | 5.3.x | 8.15.3 | 6.1.x
 | 2024.0  | 5.3.1 | 8.13.4 | 6.1.x
 | 2023.1 (Vaughan) | 5.2.x | 8.11.1 | 6.1.x
 | 2023.0 (Ullmann) | 5.1.x | 8.7.1 | 6.0.x
diff --git a/src/test/resources/testcontainers-elasticsearch.properties b/src/test/resources/testcontainers-elasticsearch.properties
index d03727107..9d1fb89d5 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/testcontainers-elasticsearch.properties
+++ b/src/test/resources/testcontainers-elasticsearch.properties
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #
 #
 sde.testcontainers.image-name=docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch
-sde.testcontainers.image-version=8.15.0
+sde.testcontainers.image-version=8.15.3
 #
 #
 # needed as we do a DELETE /* at the end of the tests, will be required from 8.0 on, produces a warning since 7.13