diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d34034efd5..d20eee229b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
     <jackson.version>2.14.3</jackson.version>
     <jdiff.versions>3</jdiff.versions>
     <!--   <avro.version>1.10.0</avro.version> -->
-    <avro.version>1.10.0.12p</avro.version>
+    <avro.version>1.11.4</avro.version>
     <guava.version>31.1-jre</guava.version>
     <zstd.version>1.5.5-1</zstd.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
diff --git a/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-fork/pom.xml b/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-fork/pom.xml
index 6fa9baadb8..e278ba7e9e 100644
--- a/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-fork/pom.xml
+++ b/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-fork/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
       <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
-      <version>1.10.0.2p</version>
+      <version>1.11.4</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
diff --git a/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-official/pom.xml b/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-official/pom.xml
index 3675cc5661..9a4fadece8 100644
--- a/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-official/pom.xml
+++ b/spf4j-avro-components/spf4j-avro-adapter-official/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
       <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
-      <version>1.11.3</version>
+      <version>1.11.4</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.spf4j</groupId>
diff --git a/spf4j-slf4j-test/pom.xml b/spf4j-slf4j-test/pom.xml
index a6362c87e6..0cc7fe0fd3 100644
--- a/spf4j-slf4j-test/pom.xml
+++ b/spf4j-slf4j-test/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
       <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
       <!-- Make this depend on the official lib, there is no gain from using the fork until github remove auth requirements -->
-      <version>1.11.3</version>
+      <version>1.11.4</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.spf4j</groupId>