diff --git a/connector/pom.xml b/connector/pom.xml
index 25cdf7d1..dcc2afa3 100644
--- a/connector/pom.xml
+++ b/connector/pom.xml
@@ -28,26 +28,10 @@
             <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
             <version>${fasterxml.jackson.jar.version}</version>
         </dependency>        
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-            <version>${commons.lang3.version}</version>
-        </dependency>        
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.microsoft.azure.kusto</groupId>
             <artifactId>kusto-data</artifactId>
             <version>${kusto.sdk.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>msal4j</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>msal4j</artifactId>
-            <version>${msal4j.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.microsoft.azure.kusto</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 25d67bba..e7f7e7ad 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <version>${revision}</version>
     <properties>
-        <revision>5.2.6</revision>
+        <revision>5.2.7-SNAPSHOT</revision>
         <!-- Spark dependencies -->
         <scala.version.major>2.12</scala.version.major>
         <scalafmt.plugin.version>1.1.1640084764.9f463a9</scalafmt.plugin.version>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <junit4.version>4.13.2</junit4.version>
         <commons.lang3.version>3.12.0</commons.lang3.version>
         <hadoop.version>3.3.6</hadoop.version>
-        <kusto.sdk.version>5.1.1</kusto.sdk.version>
+        <kusto.sdk.version>5.2.0</kusto.sdk.version>
         <java.source.version>1.8</java.source.version>
         <java.target.version>1.8</java.target.version>
         <!-- test dependencies -->
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
         <maven.surefire.plugin.version>3.0.0</maven.surefire.plugin.version>
         <mockito.version>4.11.0</mockito.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <scala.maven.plugin.version>4.8.1</scala.maven.plugin.version>
+        <scala.maven.plugin.version>4.9.2</scala.maven.plugin.version>
         <scalamock.version>5.2.0</scalamock.version>
         <scalastyle.maven.plugin.version>1.0.0</scalastyle.maven.plugin.version>
         <scalatest.maven.version>2.2.0</scalatest.maven.version>