diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c254bd7384..43992cfd58 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.sun.activation</groupId>
-      <artifactId>javax.activation</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>jakarta.activation</artifactId>
       <version>${activation.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Test dependencies -->
@@ -462,13 +462,14 @@
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <surefire.redirectTestOutputToFile>true</surefire.redirectTestOutputToFile>
     <source.property>1.8</source.property>
     <target.property>1.8</target.property>
     <netty.version>4.1.48.Final</netty.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.30</slf4j.version>
     <reactive-streams.version>1.0.3</reactive-streams.version>
-    <activation.version>1.2.0</activation.version>
+    <activation.version>1.2.2</activation.version>
     <netty-reactive-streams.version>2.0.4</netty-reactive-streams.version>
     <rxjava.version>1.3.8</rxjava.version>
     <rxjava2.version>2.2.18</rxjava2.version>