diff --git a/docs/core/tracing.md b/docs/core/tracing.md
index 17e81b867..f0c752fba 100644
--- a/docs/core/tracing.md
+++ b/docs/core/tracing.md
@@ -376,8 +376,24 @@ under a subsegment, or you are doing multithreaded programming. Refer examples b
 
 ## Instrumenting SDK clients and HTTP calls
 
-User should make sure to instrument the SDK clients explicitly based on the function dependency. Refer details on
-[how to instrument SDK client with Xray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-java-awssdkclients.html) and [outgoing http calls](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-java-httpclients.html).
+Powertools for Lambda (Java) cannot intercept SDK clients instantiation to add X-Ray instrumentation. You should make sure to instrument the SDK clients explicitly. Refer details on
+[how to instrument SDK client with Xray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-java.html#xray-sdk-java-awssdkclients) 
+and [outgoing http calls](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-java.html#xray-sdk-java-httpclients). For example:
+
+=== "LambdaHandler.java"
+
+    ```java hl_lines="1 2 7"
+    import com.amazonaws.xray.AWSXRay;
+    import com.amazonaws.xray.handlers.TracingHandler;
+
+    public class LambdaHandler {
+        private AmazonDynamoDB client = AmazonDynamoDBClientBuilder.standard()
+            .withRegion(Regions.fromName(System.getenv("AWS_REGION")))
+            .withRequestHandlers(new TracingHandler(AWSXRay.getGlobalRecorder()))
+            .build();
+        // ...
+    }
+    ```
 
 ## Testing your code
 
diff --git a/examples/powertools-examples-batch/pom.xml b/examples/powertools-examples-batch/pom.xml
index d3539d919..fc343da4e 100644
--- a/examples/powertools-examples-batch/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/powertools-examples-batch/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <log4j.version>2.20.0</log4j.version>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-        <sdk.version>2.21.1</sdk.version>
+        <sdk.version>2.25.26</sdk.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/examples/powertools-examples-cloudformation/pom.xml b/examples/powertools-examples-cloudformation/pom.xml
index 5e3403f4e..4b0631098 100644
--- a/examples/powertools-examples-cloudformation/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/powertools-examples-cloudformation/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
         <lambda.core.version>1.2.3</lambda.core.version>
         <lambda.events.version>3.11.4</lambda.events.version>
-        <aws.sdk.version>2.25.6</aws.sdk.version>
+        <aws.sdk.version>2.26.21</aws.sdk.version>
     </properties>
     <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
diff --git a/examples/powertools-examples-sqs/pom.xml b/examples/powertools-examples-sqs/pom.xml
index 01bbfd8d2..14fdbcff8 100644
--- a/examples/powertools-examples-sqs/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/powertools-examples-sqs/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
             <artifactId>url-connection-client</artifactId>
-            <version>2.25.6</version>
+            <version>2.26.21</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>
-            <version>2.15.2</version>
+            <version>2.17.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index a271c1260..5def70b0b 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ site_url: https://docs.powertools.aws.dev/lambda-java/
 nav:
   - Homepage: index.md
   - Changelog: changelog.md
+  - Workshop 🆕: https://s12d.com/powertools-for-aws-lambda-workshop" target="_blank
   - FAQs: FAQs.md
   - Core utilities:
       - core/logging.md
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e3f5dad3b..e64f7a615 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
         <log4j.version>2.22.1</log4j.version>
-        <jackson.version>2.15.3</jackson.version>
-        <aws.sdk.version>2.25.6</aws.sdk.version>
-        <aws.xray.recorder.version>2.15.1</aws.xray.recorder.version>
-        <payloadoffloading-common.version>2.1.3</payloadoffloading-common.version>
+        <jackson.version>2.17.2</jackson.version>
+        <aws.sdk.version>2.26.21</aws.sdk.version>
+        <aws.xray.recorder.version>2.15.3</aws.xray.recorder.version>
+        <payloadoffloading-common.version>2.2.0</payloadoffloading-common.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <lambda.core.version>1.2.3</lambda.core.version>
         <lambda.events.version>3.11.4</lambda.events.version>
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@
         <jacoco-maven-plugin.version>0.8.11</jacoco-maven-plugin.version>
         <nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>1.6.13</nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>
         <maven-javadoc-plugin.version>3.6.0</maven-javadoc-plugin.version>
-        <maven-source-plugin.version>3.3.0</maven-source-plugin.version>
-        <maven-gpg-plugin.version>3.1.0</maven-gpg-plugin.version>
+        <maven-source-plugin.version>3.3.1</maven-source-plugin.version>
+        <maven-gpg-plugin.version>3.2.1</maven-gpg-plugin.version>
         <junit.version>5.10.0</junit.version>
         <aws-embedded-metrics.version>1.0.6</aws-embedded-metrics.version>
         <jmespath.version>0.6.0</jmespath.version>
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-                <version>3.13.0</version>
+                <version>3.14.0</version>
                 <scope>test</scope>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
                 <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-                <version>3.24.2</version>
+                <version>3.26.0</version>
                 <scope>test</scope>
                 <exclusions>
                     <exclusion>
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
                         <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>4.7.3.6</version>
+                        <version>4.8.5.0</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>test</id>
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@
                         <!-- we run checkstyle only on Java 11, no need to run it for all JDK, it's just code style -->
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.3.0</version>
+                        <version>3.4.0</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
                             <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
diff --git a/powertools-e2e-tests/pom.xml b/powertools-e2e-tests/pom.xml
index 450d1f5c1..5c8db8d80 100644
--- a/powertools-e2e-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/powertools-e2e-tests/pom.xml
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.15.1</version>
+            <version>2.16.1</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.1.2</version>
+                        <version>3.3.0</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <goals>
diff --git a/powertools-idempotency/pom.xml b/powertools-idempotency/pom.xml
index 94aceebfc..e30b53756 100644
--- a/powertools-idempotency/pom.xml
+++ b/powertools-idempotency/pom.xml
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.3.0</version>
+                <version>3.4.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <archive>
                         <manifestEntries>