diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7251e17..d8f42d5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>org.spdx</groupId>
 	<artifactId>licenseListPublisher</artifactId>
-	<version>2.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>2.2.9</version>
 	<name>License List Publisher</name>
 	<description>Tool that generates license data found in the license-list-data repository from the license-list-XML source</description>
 	<licenses>
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 		  <sonar.host.url>https://sonarcloud.io</sonar.host.url>
 		  <sonar.organization>spdx</sonar.organization>
 		  <sonar.projectKey>licenseListPublisher</sonar.projectKey>
+		  <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
 		  <dependency-check-maven.version>7.2.1</dependency-check-maven.version>
 	  </properties>
 	<dependencies>
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
 			<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-			<version>4.5.13</version>
+			<version>4.5.14</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 		    <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.spdx</groupId>
 			<artifactId>java-spdx-library</artifactId>
-			<version>1.1.4</version>
+			<version>1.1.5</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.github.spullara.mustache.java</groupId>
@@ -81,12 +82,12 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
-			<version>1.4</version>
+			<version>1.5.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.spdx</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spdx-rdf-store</artifactId>
-			<version>1.1.4</version>
+			<version>1.1.5</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.spdx</groupId>
 					<artifactId>spdx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-					<version>0.6.2</version>
+					<version>0.6.4</version>
 					<executions>
 						<execution>
 							<id>build-spdx</id>