diff --git a/aem/aio_aem_events/pom.xml b/aem/aio_aem_events/pom.xml
index b046b7f5..91cfc76d 100644
--- a/aem/aio_aem_events/pom.xml
+++ b/aem/aio_aem_events/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio.aem</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-aem</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>aio-aem-events</artifactId>
diff --git a/aem/core_aem/pom.xml b/aem/core_aem/pom.xml
index 4a51701c..69836cdb 100644
--- a/aem/core_aem/pom.xml
+++ b/aem/core_aem/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio.aem</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-aem</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>aio-aem-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/aem/events_ingress_aem/pom.xml b/aem/events_ingress_aem/pom.xml
index e1349650..25ca9e8f 100644
--- a/aem/events_ingress_aem/pom.xml
+++ b/aem/events_ingress_aem/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio.aem</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-aem</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>aio-aem-events-publish</artifactId>
diff --git a/aem/events_mgmt_aem/pom.xml b/aem/events_mgmt_aem/pom.xml
index 503412a6..01aa2644 100644
--- a/aem/events_mgmt_aem/pom.xml
+++ b/aem/events_mgmt_aem/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio.aem</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-aem</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>aio-aem-events-mgmt</artifactId>
diff --git a/aem/events_osgi_mapping/pom.xml b/aem/events_osgi_mapping/pom.xml
index 90142d56..3392ee01 100644
--- a/aem/events_osgi_mapping/pom.xml
+++ b/aem/events_osgi_mapping/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio.aem</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-aem</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>aio-aem-events-osgi-mapping</artifactId>
diff --git a/aem/lib_osgi/pom.xml b/aem/lib_osgi/pom.xml
index 2d248934..b4f3d4fa 100644
--- a/aem/lib_osgi/pom.xml
+++ b/aem/lib_osgi/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio.aem</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-aem</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>aio-lib-osgi</artifactId>
diff --git a/aem/pom.xml b/aem/pom.xml
index d9adfac8..3cc7a04d 100644
--- a/aem/pom.xml
+++ b/aem/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>com.adobe.aio.aem</groupId>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index c95417b8..6df8405d 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/cloudevents/ZonedDateTimeDeserializer.java b/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/cloudevents/ZonedDateTimeDeserializer.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b7cfbea8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/cloudevents/ZonedDateTimeDeserializer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 Adobe. All rights reserved.
+ * This file is licensed to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy
+ * of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under
+ * the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS
+ * OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language
+ * governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.adobe.aio.cloudevents;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JacksonException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.time.DateTimeException;
+import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+
+public class ZonedDateTimeDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<ZonedDateTime> {
+
+  @Override
+  public ZonedDateTime deserialize(
+      JsonParser jsonParser, DeserializationContext deserializationContext)
+      throws IOException, JacksonException {
+    try {
+      return ZonedDateTime.parse(jsonParser.getText(), DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME);
+    } catch (DateTimeException e) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("could not parse", e);
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/cloudevents/ZonedDateTimeSerializer.java b/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/cloudevents/ZonedDateTimeSerializer.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1de59e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/cloudevents/ZonedDateTimeSerializer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 Adobe. All rights reserved.
+ * This file is licensed to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy
+ * of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under
+ * the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS
+ * OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language
+ * governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.adobe.aio.cloudevents;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+
+public class ZonedDateTimeSerializer extends JsonSerializer<ZonedDateTime> {
+
+  @Override
+  public void serialize(
+      ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime,
+      JsonGenerator jsonGenerator,
+      SerializerProvider serializerProvider)
+      throws IOException {
+    jsonGenerator.writeString(zonedDateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME));
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/util/JacksonUtil.java b/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/util/JacksonUtil.java
index 9febae2b..42ad80a8 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/util/JacksonUtil.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/com/adobe/aio/util/JacksonUtil.java
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
  */
 package com.adobe.aio.util;
 
+import com.adobe.aio.cloudevents.ZonedDateTimeDeserializer;
+import com.adobe.aio.cloudevents.ZonedDateTimeSerializer;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Include;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
@@ -20,8 +22,6 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.TextNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jdk8.Jdk8Module;
-import io.cloudevents.json.ZonedDateTimeDeserializer;
-import io.cloudevents.json.ZonedDateTimeSerializer;
 import io.openapitools.jackson.dataformat.hal.JacksonHALModule;
 import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
diff --git a/events_ingress/pom.xml b/events_ingress/pom.xml
index 201b042d..3649aacc 100644
--- a/events_ingress/pom.xml
+++ b/events_ingress/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/events_journal/pom.xml b/events_journal/pom.xml
index 99014af0..78dbb9d3 100644
--- a/events_journal/pom.xml
+++ b/events_journal/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/events_mgmt/pom.xml b/events_mgmt/pom.xml
index 080cd338..22d9c1d5 100644
--- a/events_mgmt/pom.xml
+++ b/events_mgmt/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/events_test/pom.xml b/events_test/pom.xml
index 0939c283..f01bd949 100644
--- a/events_test/pom.xml
+++ b/events_test/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/events_webhook/pom.xml b/events_webhook/pom.xml
index 4ca46b6b..cc1dfd15 100644
--- a/events_webhook/pom.xml
+++ b/events_webhook/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/events_webhook/src/test/java/com/adobe/aio/event/webhook/feign/FeignPubKeyServiceTest.java b/events_webhook/src/test/java/com/adobe/aio/event/webhook/feign/FeignPubKeyServiceTest.java
index 8152da24..94045020 100644
--- a/events_webhook/src/test/java/com/adobe/aio/event/webhook/feign/FeignPubKeyServiceTest.java
+++ b/events_webhook/src/test/java/com/adobe/aio/event/webhook/feign/FeignPubKeyServiceTest.java
@@ -1,23 +1,20 @@
 package com.adobe.aio.event.webhook.feign;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.security.KeyFactory;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.mockserver.model.HttpRequest.request;
+import static org.mockserver.model.HttpResponse.response;
+
 import java.security.KeyPair;
 import java.security.KeyPairGenerator;
 import java.security.PublicKey;
-
-import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
-
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
 import org.mockserver.client.MockServerClient;
 import org.mockserver.junit.jupiter.MockServerExtension;
 import shaded_package.org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
 
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
-import static org.mockserver.model.HttpRequest.*;
-import static org.mockserver.model.HttpResponse.*;
-
 @ExtendWith(MockServerExtension.class)
 public class FeignPubKeyServiceTest {
 
diff --git a/events_xdm/pom.xml b/events_xdm/pom.xml
index 8ef32de0..61f03504 100644
--- a/events_xdm/pom.xml
+++ b/events_xdm/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/ims/pom.xml b/ims/pom.xml
index 5da83d0d..758275da 100644
--- a/ims/pom.xml
+++ b/ims/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
     <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bb66a5b8..63e6d20a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
   <groupId>com.adobe.aio</groupId>
   <artifactId>aio-lib-java</artifactId>
-  <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <modules>
@@ -96,15 +96,15 @@
 
     <jacoco.version>0.8.10</jacoco.version>
 
-    <commons-text.version>1.10.0</commons-text.version>
+    <commons-text.version>1.13.0</commons-text.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.13.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <junit.version>5.10.0</junit.version>
-    <mockito.version>5.4.0</mockito.version>
-    <slf4j.version>1.7.6</slf4j.version>
-    <jackson.version>2.13.4</jackson.version>
+    <mockito.version>5.11.0</mockito.version>
+    <slf4j.version>2.0.12</slf4j.version>
+    <jackson.version>2.17.2</jackson.version>
     <jjwt.version>0.11.5</jjwt.version>
 
-    <cloudevents.version>1.2.0</cloudevents.version>
+    <cloudevents.version>4.0.1</cloudevents.version>
     <!--  we'll stick to this CloudEvents v1 version for now -->
 
     <!-- https://github.com/openapi-tools/jackson-dataformat-hal/blob/v1.0.9/pom.xml -->
@@ -259,8 +259,8 @@
                   <version>[3.3.9,)</version>
                 </requireMavenVersion>
                 <requireJavaVersion>
-                  <message>Maven must be executed with a Java 8 JRE or higher.</message>
-                  <version>1.8.0</version>
+                  <message>Maven must be executed with a Java 17 JRE or higher.</message>
+                  <version>1.17.0</version>
                 </requireJavaVersion>
               </rules>
             </configuration>