diff --git a/spring-katharsis/pom.xml b/spring-katharsis/pom.xml
index e2e3ea6f97..32f24231a9 100644
--- a/spring-katharsis/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-katharsis/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
+        <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@
     
     <properties>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
-        <katharsis.version>1.0.0</katharsis.version>
-        <restassured.version>2.4.0</restassured.version>
-        <cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.6.0</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
+        <katharsis.version>1.0.1</katharsis.version>
+        <restassured.version>2.9.0</restassured.version>
+        <cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.6.1</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
     </properties>
 
 
diff --git a/spring-mockito/pom.xml b/spring-mockito/pom.xml
index c8e0d3b7f5..ca9bad2bc0 100644
--- a/spring-mockito/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-mockito/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
+        <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
-            <version>1.10.19</version>
+            <version>${mockito.version}</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
+        <mockito.version>1.10.19</mockito.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/spring-mvc-email/pom.xml b/spring-mvc-email/pom.xml
index 0d3acec1fe..a04097e027 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-email/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-mvc-email/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
+        <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>
         <relativePath></relativePath>
     </parent>
 
@@ -24,18 +24,15 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId>
-            <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
         </dependency>
         <!-- The following two dependencies included to render jsp pages -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
             <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
-            <version>8.5.4</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
             <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/spring-mvc-forms/pom.xml b/spring-mvc-forms/pom.xml
index 370fd7feb2..c0cac4d349 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-forms/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-mvc-forms/pom.xml
@@ -84,14 +84,14 @@
     </profiles>
 
     <properties>
-        <springframework.version>4.0.6.RELEASE</springframework.version>
-        <maven-war-plugin.version>2.4</maven-war-plugin.version>
+        <springframework.version>4.3.4.RELEASE</springframework.version>
+        <maven-war-plugin.version>2.6</maven-war-plugin.version>
         <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
         <javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>2.3.1</javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>
         <javax.servlet-api.version>3.1.0</javax.servlet-api.version>
-        <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.5.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+        <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.6.0</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
         <maven-compiler-plugin.source>1.8</maven-compiler-plugin.source>
-        <hibernate-validator.version>5.1.1.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
+        <hibernate-validator.version>5.3.3.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
         <deploy-path>enter-location-of-server</deploy-path>
     </properties>