diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0353b1ffd7..492cfc256c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     <spotbugs-maven-plugin.failOnError>true</spotbugs-maven-plugin.failOnError>
     <hamcrest.version>2.2</hamcrest.version>
     <okhttp3.version>4.9.2</okhttp3.version>
-    <okio.version>2.10.0</okio.version>
+    <okio.version>3.0.0</okio.version>
     <!-- Using this as the minimum bar for code coverage.  Adding methods without covering them will fail this. -->
     <jacoco.coverage.target.bundle.method>0.70</jacoco.coverage.target.bundle.method>
     <jacoco.coverage.target.class.method>0.50</jacoco.coverage.target.class.method>
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
           <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>0.8.7</version>
+          <version>0.8.8</version>
           <configuration>
             <!-- no need to get data about external code. It dramatically reduces performance of JaCoCo for nothing -->
             <excludes>
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>com.diffplug.spotless</groupId>
         <artifactId>spotless-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.22.0</version>
+        <version>2.22.1</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>spotless-check</id>
@@ -402,6 +402,12 @@
             <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>true</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
             <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
             <includeSynthetic>true</includeSynthetic>
+            <excludes>
+              <!-- Classes in internal are public but are considered private for API stability purposes -->
+              <exclude>org.kohsuke.github.internal</exclude>
+              <!-- TODO: started failing in CI recently. This is part of the multi-release structure. -->
+              <exclude>org.kohsuke.github.extras.HttpClientGitHubConnector#HttpClientGitHubConnector(java.net.http.HttpClient)</exclude>
+            </excludes>
           </parameter>
         </configuration>
         <executions>