diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a20d55239..60c544e9c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     <logback.version>1.6.3</logback.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.22.1</commons-codec.version>
     <japicmp.version>0.26.2</japicmp.version>
-    <openai-java.version>4.58.0</openai-java.version>
+    <openai-java.version>4.63.1</openai-java.version>
     <!-- conflicts resolution -->
     <httpcomponents-core5.version>5.4.3</httpcomponents-core5.version>
     <httpcomponents-client5.version>5.6.4</httpcomponents-client5.version>
@@ -200,6 +200,12 @@
         <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
         <version>${jackson.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <!-- Align dependency version with upper bound -->
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.jr</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jackson-jr-objects</artifactId>
+        <version>${jackson.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <!-- conflicts resolution scope "compile" -->
       <!-- CVE-2026-CVE-2026-59313, 47892, 47893, 59283 pin spring deps >= 7.0.9 until we migrate to spring-ai 2 -->
       <dependency>
@@ -595,6 +601,7 @@
             </goals>
             <configuration>
               <rules>
+                <!-- Please ensure to build with dependencies of the highest versions among all modules -->
                 <requireUpperBoundDeps/>
               </rules>
             </configuration>
diff --git a/sample-code/spring-app/pom.xml b/sample-code/spring-app/pom.xml
index cc01e7844..956d26a57 100644
--- a/sample-code/spring-app/pom.xml
+++ b/sample-code/spring-app/pom.xml
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
   <properties>
     <project.rootdir>${project.basedir}/../../</project.rootdir>
     <spring-boot.version>4.1.1</spring-boot.version>
-    <cf-logging.version>4.2.0</cf-logging.version>
-    <apache-tomcat-embed.version>11.0.25</apache-tomcat-embed.version>
+    <cf-logging.version>4.3.0</cf-logging.version>
+    <apache-tomcat-embed.version>11.0.26</apache-tomcat-embed.version>
     <mcp-core.version>2.0.1</mcp-core.version>
     <jackson-annotations.version>2.22</jackson-annotations.version>
     <!-- Skip end-to-end tests by default, can be overridden with -DskipTests=false -->