diff --git a/janusgraph-core/pom.xml b/janusgraph-core/pom.xml
index 36404ad3af..b26f7c686c 100644
--- a/janusgraph-core/pom.xml
+++ b/janusgraph-core/pom.xml
@@ -84,12 +84,6 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.ben-manes.caffeine</groupId>
             <artifactId>caffeine</artifactId>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>checker-qual</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index cad845acab..5b4c9503fa 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
         <jetty.version>9.4.57.v20241219</jetty.version>
         <log4j2.version>2.23.1</log4j2.version>
         <graalvm-nativeimage.version>24.0.2</graalvm-nativeimage.version>
-        <caffeine.version>2.9.3</caffeine.version>
+        <caffeine.version>3.2.4</caffeine.version>
         <checker-qual.version>3.46.0</checker-qual.version>
         <curator.version>5.7.0</curator.version>
         <autoPublish>false</autoPublish>
@@ -293,12 +293,13 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.4.0</version>
+                <version>3.6.0</version>
                 <dependencies>
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                        <version>9.3</version>
+                        <!-- 10.x is the last Checkstyle line that runs on Java 11; 11+ requires Java 17 -->
+                        <version>10.26.1</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>
@@ -774,7 +775,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.yetus</groupId>
                 <artifactId>audience-annotations</artifactId>
-                <version>0.13.0</version>
+                <version>0.15.1</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
@@ -952,7 +953,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.google.errorprone</groupId>
                 <artifactId>error_prone_annotations</artifactId>
-                <version>2.30.0</version>
+                <version>2.50.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>