diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2e83756..4c6f266 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target>
     <redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>
-    <test.additional.args />
+    <test.additional.args/>
     <testReuseFork>true</testReuseFork>
     <testForkCount>4</testForkCount>
     <testRetryCount>1</testRetryCount>
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     <rocksdb.version>6.10.2</rocksdb.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>
     <commons.collections.version>3.2.2</commons.collections.version>
-    <log4j2.version>2.14.0</log4j2.version>
+    <log4j2.version>2.15.0</log4j2.version>
     <bouncycastle.version>1.69</bouncycastle.version>
     <bouncycastlefips.version>1.0.2</bouncycastlefips.version>
     <jackson.version>2.12.3</jackson.version>
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
     <scala.binary.version>2.13</scala.binary.version>
     <scala-library.version>2.13.6</scala-library.version>
     <debezium.version>1.5.4.Final</debezium.version>
-    <snowflakeconnector.version>1.5.5</snowflakeconnector.version>
+    <snowflakeconnector.version>1.6.1</snowflakeconnector.version>
     <jsonwebtoken.version>0.11.1</jsonwebtoken.version>
     <opencensus.version>0.18.0</opencensus.version>
     <hbase.version>2.3.0</hbase.version>
diff --git a/snowflake-kafka-connector-shaded/pom.xml b/snowflake-kafka-connector-shaded/pom.xml
index 74de4c8..e440fbb 100644
--- a/snowflake-kafka-connector-shaded/pom.xml
+++ b/snowflake-kafka-connector-shaded/pom.xml
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
             </relocation>
           </relocations>
           <transformers>
-            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
-            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.PluginXmlResourceTransformer" />
+            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
+            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.PluginXmlResourceTransformer"/>
           </transformers>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>