diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 937d274..00acfa8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 
 	<groupId>com.aerospike</groupId>
 	<artifactId>java-object-mapper</artifactId>
-    <version>2.7.0</version>
+    <version>2.8.0</version>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
-	
-	<name>Aerospike Object Mapper</name>
-	<description>Aerospike Object Mapper aims to lower the amount of code required when mapping POJOs
+
+    <name>Aerospike Java Object Mapper</name>
+    <description>Aerospike Java Object Mapper aims to lower the amount of code required when mapping POJOs
 		to Aerospike and back as well as reducing some of the brittleness of the code.</description>
 	<url>https://github.com/aerospike/java-object-mapper</url>
 	<organization>
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
 		<maven-surefire-plugin.version>3.3.0</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
         <maven-central-publishing-plugin.version>0.10.0</maven-central-publishing-plugin.version>
         <jakarta.validation-api.version>3.1.1</jakarta.validation-api.version>
-        <aerospike-client-jdk8.version>10.0.0</aerospike-client-jdk8.version>
-        <aerospike-reactor.version>10.0.0</aerospike-reactor.version>
+        <aerospike-client-jdk8.version>10.2.0</aerospike-client-jdk8.version>
+        <aerospike-reactor.version>10.2.0</aerospike-reactor.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.20.0</commons-lang3.version>
         <snakeyaml.version>2.6</snakeyaml.version>
         <jackson-databind.version>2.21.2</jackson-databind.version>