diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2c043018..a1a004d9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>kiwi</artifactId>
-    <version>0.26.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@
         <!-- Versions for provided dependencies -->
         <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>
         <commons-text.version>1.9</commons-text.version>
-        <dropwizard.version>2.0.24</dropwizard.version>
+        <dropwizard.version>2.0.25</dropwizard.version>
         <FastInfoset.version>1.2.18</FastInfoset.version>
-        <hibernate.version>5.5.3.Final</hibernate.version>
+        <hibernate.version>5.5.7.Final</hibernate.version>
         <hibernate-validator.version>6.1.7.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
         <httpclient.version>4.5.13</httpclient.version>
         <jackson.version>[2.10.5,2.10.6)</jackson.version>
         <jakarta.annotation-api.version>1.3.5</jakarta.annotation-api.version>
-        <jakarta-el.version>3.0.3</jakarta-el.version>
+        <jakarta-el.version>3.0.4</jakarta-el.version>
         <jakarta.ws.rs.rs-api.version>2.1.6</jakarta.ws.rs.rs-api.version>
         <jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>2.3.3</jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>
         <javassist.version>3.28.0-GA</javassist.version>
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@
         <woodstox-core.version>5.1.0</woodstox-core.version>
 
         <!-- Versions for optional dependencies -->
-        <error_prone_annotations.version>2.8.0</error_prone_annotations.version>
+        <error_prone_annotations.version>2.9.0</error_prone_annotations.version>
         <jsr305.version>3.0.2</jsr305.version>
 
         <!-- Versions for test dependencies -->
         <commons-compress.version>1.21</commons-compress.version>
-        <embedded-postgres.version>1.3.0</embedded-postgres.version>
+        <embedded-postgres.version>1.3.1</embedded-postgres.version>
         <embed.mongo.version>3.0.0</embed.mongo.version>
         <h2.version>1.4.200</h2.version>
         <jdbi3.version>3.21.0</jdbi3.version>
@@ -190,6 +190,10 @@
                     <groupId>jakarta.annotation</groupId>
                     <artifactId>jakarta.annotation-api</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>jakarta.el</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
                     <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>