diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6a16bc1..d701219 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.10</version>
+                <version>2.1.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>package</phase>
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.22.2</version>
+                <version>3.0.0-M7</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <forkCount>1C</forkCount>
                     <includes>
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>info.picocli</groupId>
             <artifactId>picocli</artifactId>
-            <version>4.6.3</version>
+            <version>4.7.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.anarres/parallelgzip -->
         <dependency>
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-            <version>5.9.0</version>
+            <version>5.9.1</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>2.22.2</version>
+            <version>3.0.0-M7</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jetbrains</groupId>
@@ -308,13 +308,7 @@
             <version>23.0.0</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.13.2</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
+       <dependency>
             <groupId>org.tukaani</groupId>
             <artifactId>xz</artifactId>
             <version>1.9</version>
@@ -342,7 +336,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>info.picocli</groupId>
             <artifactId>picocli-groovy</artifactId>
-            <version>4.6.3</version>
+            <version>4.7.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.groovy</groupId>
@@ -353,7 +347,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2</version>
+            <version>1.5.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>