diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index db6980504..f9e223fca 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,13 +38,14 @@
 
   <!-- Set our Language Level to Java 8 -->
   <properties>
+    <avro.version>1.11.4</avro.version>
     <bouncycastle.version>1.78.1</bouncycastle.version>
     <codehaus.version>1.9.13</codehaus.version>
-    <commonscodec.version>1.15</commonscodec.version>
+    <commonscodec.version>1.17.1</commonscodec.version>
     <commonscollections.version>3.2.2</commonscollections.version>
-    <commonscompress.version>1.26.0</commonscompress.version>
+    <commonscompress.version>1.26.2</commonscompress.version>
     <commonsconfiguration2.version>2.10.1</commonsconfiguration2.version>
-    <commonsio.version>2.15.1</commonsio.version>
+    <commonsio.version>2.16.1</commonsio.version>
     <commonslang3.version>3.14.0</commonslang3.version>
     <commonslogging.version>1.3.3</commonslogging.version>
     <commonstext.version>1.11.0</commonstext.version>
@@ -139,6 +140,11 @@
         <artifactId>snowflake-jdbc</artifactId>
         <version>${snowjdbc.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+        <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
+        <version>${avro.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>