diff --git a/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yml b/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yml
index 3255e2ca07c9..30b6b3bdd5f8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yml
@@ -6,19 +6,20 @@ on:
     - cron: '00 23 * * SUN'
 
 jobs:
-  deploy:
+  deploy-gh-pages:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     concurrency:
       group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: develop
 
       - name: Set up JDK 1.8
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4.2.1
         with:
-          java-version: 1.8
+          java-version: 8
+          distribution: zulu
 
       - name: Build Project
         run: mvn clean install
diff --git a/.github/workflows/maven.yml b/.github/workflows/maven.yml
index e39e15f3b4a7..2913c7fd1ccf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/maven.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/maven.yml
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-13, windows-latest]
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Hadoop winutils (Windows)
       if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
       run: |
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ jobs:
         echo "HADOOP_HOME=C:\winutils\hadoop-3.2.2" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
         echo "PATH=$env:PATH;$env:HADOOP_HOME\bin" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
     - name: Set up JDK 1.8
-      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v4.2.1
       with:
-        java-version: 1.8
+        java-version: 8
+        distribution: zulu
     - name: Build with Maven
       run: |
         mvn clean install -DskipTests --no-transfer-progress -DtrimStackTrace=false
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-snaphot.yml b/.github/workflows/release-snaphot.yml
index 8ad1a25b13fc..66a8fd7e668a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-snaphot.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-snaphot.yml
@@ -11,19 +11,21 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: develop
 
       - name: Set up JDK 1.8
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4.2.1
         with:
-          java-version: 1.8
+          java-version: 8
+          distribution: zulu
 
       - name: Set up Apache Maven Central
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4.2.1
         with: # running setup-java again overwrites the settings.xml
-          java-version: 1.8
+          java-version: 8
+          distribution: zulu
           server-id: release_artifacts_gradoop
           server-username: OSSRH_USERNAME
           server-password: OSSRH_PASSWORD
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f7f58172ab93..046df10229f9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
         </site>
         <snapshotRepository>
             <id>release_artifacts_gradoop</id>
-            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/gradoop</url>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
         </snapshotRepository>
         <repository>
             <id>release_artifacts_gradoop</id>
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
         <dep.jsonassert.version>1.2.3</dep.jsonassert.version>
         <dep.kryo.version>4.0.2</dep.kryo.version>
         <dep.flink-shaded.version>2.6.5-9.0</dep.flink-shaded.version>
+        <dep.protoc.version>3.0.0</dep.protoc.version>
         <dep.parquet.version>1.12.0</dep.parquet.version>
         <dep.log4j.version>2.17.1</dep.log4j.version>
         <dep.mockito.version>2.21.0</dep.mockito.version>
@@ -294,7 +295,7 @@
                     <artifactId>protoc-jar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>${plugin.maven-protoc.version}</version>
                     <configuration>
-                        <protocVersion>3.0.0</protocVersion>
+                        <protocVersion>${dep.protoc.version}</protocVersion>
                         <inputDirectories>
                             <include>src/main/proto</include>
                         </inputDirectories>