diff --git a/livingatlas/migration/pom.xml b/livingatlas/migration/pom.xml
index 8c6a0df1ad..d82fdfd1b0 100644
--- a/livingatlas/migration/pom.xml
+++ b/livingatlas/migration/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     <!-- this library is not in the parent POM, but is in use by gbif/crawler
      which uses version 1.58
      -->
-    <spark.version>3.3.1</spark.version>
+    <spark.version>3.4.0</spark.version>
     <jcommander.version>1.78</jcommander.version>
     <sonar.skip>true</sonar.skip>
   </properties>
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/.scalafmt.conf b/livingatlas/pipelines/.scalafmt.conf
index c02bc31cd7..72d09ec52c 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/.scalafmt.conf
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/.scalafmt.conf
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-version = 2.7.5
-maxColumn = 120
\ No newline at end of file
+version = 3.7.3
+maxColumn = 120
+runner.dialect = scala212
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/pom.xml b/livingatlas/pipelines/pom.xml
index d764a3628e..ae16667b05 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/pom.xml
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/pom.xml
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 
     <!-- Tools-->
     <commons-configuration.version>1.6</commons-configuration.version>
-    <netty.version>3.9.9.Final</netty.version>
-    <netty-all.version>4.1.42.Final</netty-all.version>
+<!--    <netty.version>3.9.9.Final</netty.version>-->
+    <netty-all.version>4.1.100.Final</netty-all.version>
     <snakeyaml.version>1.25</snakeyaml.version>
     <streamex.version>0.7.2</streamex.version>
     <jcommander.version>1.78</jcommander.version>
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@
     <json-simple.version>1.1.1</json-simple.version>
     <hadoop-compress.version>1.2</hadoop-compress.version>
 
-    <!-- GBIF parent currently using 2.4.0 -->
-    <spark.embedded.version>2.4.5</spark.embedded.version>
-
     <!-- Plugins -->
     <org.jetbrains.annotations>13.0</org.jetbrains.annotations>
     <git-commit-id-plugin.version>2.2.4</git-commit-id-plugin.version>
@@ -58,10 +55,8 @@
     <checker-qual.version>3.9.1</checker-qual.version>
     <snappy-java.version>1.1.8.4</snappy-java.version>
 
-    <spark.version>3.3.1</spark.version>
-    <hadoop.version>3.3.4</hadoop.version>
+    <hadoop.version>3.4.0</hadoop.version>
     <maven-scala-plugin.version>4.8.0</maven-scala-plugin.version>
-    <scala.version>2.12.17</scala.version>
   </properties>
 
   <build>
@@ -184,7 +179,7 @@
         <configuration combine.self="override">
           <java>
             <googleJavaFormat>
-              <version>1.7</version>
+              <version>${googleJavaFormat.version}</version>
               <style>GOOGLE</style>
             </googleJavaFormat>
           </java>
@@ -252,6 +247,12 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
       <artifactId>beam-sdks-java-io-solr</artifactId>
       <version>${apache.beam.version}</version>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+          <artifactId>netty-buffer</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
@@ -268,11 +269,11 @@
       <artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
       <version>${commons-configuration.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-      <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-      <version>${netty.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
+<!--    <dependency>-->
+<!--      <groupId>io.netty</groupId>-->
+<!--      <artifactId>netty</artifactId>-->
+<!--      <version>${netty.version}</version>-->
+<!--    </dependency>-->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
       <artifactId>netty-all</artifactId>
@@ -303,6 +304,13 @@
           <groupId>org.gbif.registry</groupId>
           <artifactId>registry-ws-client</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
+        <!-- DO NOT REMOVE -->
+        <!-- This is required for integration tests in some envronments. -->
+        <!-- The integration test error is an java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError for a JNA path -->
+                <exclusion>
+                  <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
+                  <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -737,7 +745,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>${zookeeper-version}</version>
+      <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>
@@ -832,6 +840,12 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-compress</artifactId>
       <version>${hadoop-compress.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+      <version>2.23.1</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <profiles>
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/kvs/ShapeFile.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/kvs/ShapeFile.java
index c574cd6341..95ee5ae280 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/kvs/ShapeFile.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/kvs/ShapeFile.java
@@ -11,12 +11,16 @@
 public class ShapeFile implements Serializable {
   /** Path to the shape file */
   String path;
+
   /** The name field to use from the shape file. */
   String field;
+
   /** URL to source of the shapefile */
   String source;
+
   /** Intersect buffer 0.1 = 11km, 0.135 = 15km, 0.18 = 20km */
   Double intersectBuffer = 0.18;
+
   /** Intersect mapping to allow intersected values to mapped to different values e.g. CX -> AU * */
   Map<String, String> intersectMapping;
 }
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ALAReverseJackKnifePipeline.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ALAReverseJackKnifePipeline.java
index 768db089ba..d56ee01022 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ALAReverseJackKnifePipeline.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ALAReverseJackKnifePipeline.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.ParDo;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.*;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.gbif.pipelines.common.beam.metrics.MetricsHandler;
 import org.gbif.pipelines.common.beam.options.PipelinesOptionsFactory;
 import org.gbif.pipelines.core.pojo.HdfsConfigs;
@@ -296,10 +297,17 @@ public void processElement(ProcessContext c) {
     PipelineResult result = pipeline.run();
     result.waitUntilFinish();
 
-    MetricsHandler.saveCountersToFile(
-        HdfsConfigs.create(options.getHdfsSiteConfig(), options.getCoreSiteConfig()),
-        jackknifePath + "/metrics.yaml",
-        result.metrics());
+    String path = jackknifePath + "/metrics.yaml";
+    String countersInfo = MetricsHandler.getCountersInfo(result.metrics());
+    FileSystem fs =
+        FsUtils.getFileSystem(
+            HdfsConfigs.create(options.getHdfsSiteConfig(), options.getCoreSiteConfig()), path);
+    try {
+      FsUtils.createFile(fs, path, countersInfo);
+      log.info("Metadata was written to a file - {}", path);
+    } catch (IOException ex) {
+      log.warn("Write pipelines metadata file", ex);
+    }
 
     log.info("3. Pipeline has been finished");
   }
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ClusteringPipeline.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ClusteringPipeline.java
index 6ccc9ffd64..11cb6fad5a 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ClusteringPipeline.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ClusteringPipeline.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.*;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.KV;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.PCollection;
-import org.apache.directory.api.util.Strings;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.gbif.dwc.terms.DwcTerm;
 import org.gbif.pipelines.common.beam.options.PipelinesOptionsFactory;
@@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ public void processElement(
                             .withOtherCatalogNumbers(otherCatalogNumbers);
 
                     // specimen only hashes
-                    if (Strings.isNotEmpty(speciesKey)
-                        && Strings.isNotEmpty(basisOfRecord)
+                    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(speciesKey)
+                        && StringUtils.isNotEmpty(basisOfRecord)
                         && specimenBORs.contains(basisOfRecord)) {
 
                       Stream<String> ids =
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ public void processElement(
                       // output hashes for each combination
                       ids.filter(
                               value ->
-                                  !Strings.isEmpty(value) && !omitIds.contains(value.toUpperCase()))
+                                  !StringUtils.isEmpty(value)
+                                      && !omitIds.contains(value.toUpperCase()))
                           .distinct()
                           .collect(Collectors.toList())
                           .forEach(
@@ -225,14 +226,14 @@ public void processElement(
                     }
 
                     // 2. type status hashkeys
-                    if (Strings.isNotEmpty(taxonKey) && typeStatus != null) {
+                    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(taxonKey) && typeStatus != null) {
                       for (String t : typeStatus) {
                         out.output(builder.withHashKey(taxonKey + "|" + t).build());
                       }
                     }
 
                     // 3. taxonKey|year|recordedBy hashkeys
-                    if (Strings.isNotEmpty(taxonKey) && year != null && recordedBy != null) {
+                    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(taxonKey) && year != null && recordedBy != null) {
                       out.output(
                           builder.withHashKey(taxonKey + "|" + year + "|" + recordedBy).build());
                     }
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ImageServiceSyncPipeline.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ImageServiceSyncPipeline.java
index bb21a90376..2a65fdc57d 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ImageServiceSyncPipeline.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/ImageServiceSyncPipeline.java
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     // FIXME: Issue logged here: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/la-pipelines/issues/105
     System.exit(0);
   }
+
   /**
    * Includes the following steps:
    *
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/vocabulary/CentrePoints.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/vocabulary/CentrePoints.java
index ceaab9bb5c..236fbd21c8 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/vocabulary/CentrePoints.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/vocabulary/CentrePoints.java
@@ -149,12 +149,16 @@ public boolean coordinatesMatchCentre(
     }
   }
 
-  /** @return size of centres */
+  /**
+   * @return size of centres
+   */
   public int size() {
     return centres.size();
   }
 
-  /** @return keys */
+  /**
+   * @return keys
+   */
   public Set<String> keys() {
     return centres.keySet();
   }
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/scala/au/org/ala/pipelines/spark/PredicateExportDwCAPipeline.scala b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/scala/au/org/ala/pipelines/spark/PredicateExportDwCAPipeline.scala
index 5531dfc19f..881f850c73 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/scala/au/org/ala/pipelines/spark/PredicateExportDwCAPipeline.scala
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/scala/au/org/ala/pipelines/spark/PredicateExportDwCAPipeline.scala
@@ -639,7 +639,9 @@ object PredicateExportDwCAPipeline {
       extensionFileName: String,
       extensionFields: Array[String]
   ): Elem = {
-    <extension rowType={extensionUri} encoding="UTF-8" fieldsTerminatedBy="\t" linesTerminatedBy="\r\n" fieldsEnclosedBy="&quot;" ignoreHeaderLines="1">
+    <extension rowType={
+      extensionUri
+    } encoding="UTF-8" fieldsTerminatedBy="\t" linesTerminatedBy="\r\n" fieldsEnclosedBy="&quot;" ignoreHeaderLines="1">
       <files>
         <location>{extensionFileName}.txt</location>
       </files>
@@ -669,7 +671,9 @@ object PredicateExportDwCAPipeline {
       extensionFileName: String,
       extensionFields: Array[String]
   ): Elem = {
-    <extension rowType={extensionUri} encoding="UTF-8" fieldsTerminatedBy="\t" linesTerminatedBy="\r\n" fieldsEnclosedBy="&quot;" ignoreHeaderLines="1">
+    <extension rowType={
+      extensionUri
+    } encoding="UTF-8" fieldsTerminatedBy="\t" linesTerminatedBy="\r\n" fieldsEnclosedBy="&quot;" ignoreHeaderLines="1">
       <files>
         <location>{extensionFileName}.txt</location>
       </files>
@@ -698,7 +702,9 @@ object PredicateExportDwCAPipeline {
     val coreFileName =
       coreURI.substring(coreURI.lastIndexOf("/") + 1).toLowerCase
     val metaXml = <archive xmlns="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/text/">
-      <core rowType={coreURI} encoding="UTF-8" fieldsTerminatedBy="\t" linesTerminatedBy="\r\n" fieldsEnclosedBy="&quot;" ignoreHeaderLines="1">
+      <core rowType={
+      coreURI
+    } encoding="UTF-8" fieldsTerminatedBy="\t" linesTerminatedBy="\r\n" fieldsEnclosedBy="&quot;" ignoreHeaderLines="1">
         <files>
           <location>{coreFileName}.txt</location>
         </files>
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/GeocodeServiceTestIT.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/GeocodeServiceTestIT.java
index 392be22226..17af9c72f5 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/GeocodeServiceTestIT.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/GeocodeServiceTestIT.java
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ public void testCountryEEZ1() {
 
     assertFalse(resp.getLocations().isEmpty());
   }
+
   //    -35.482884,146.804061
   @Test
   public void testCountryEEZ2() {
diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/NameCheckKVStoreTestIT.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/NameCheckKVStoreTestIT.java
index e02dbd5f2d..091e3e05a7 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/NameCheckKVStoreTestIT.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/test/java/au/org/ala/kvs/NameCheckKVStoreTestIT.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 public class NameCheckKVStoreTestIT {
 
   @ClassRule public static IntegrationTestUtils itUtils = IntegrationTestUtils.getInstance();
+
   /**
    * Tests the Get operation on {@link KeyValueCache} that wraps a simple KV store backed by a
    * HashMap.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 682cd4cc08..116448bcf5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
     <gbif-wrangler.version>0.5-SNAPSHOT</gbif-wrangler.version>
     <gbif-occurrence.version>0.195.0-H3-SNAPSHOT</gbif-occurrence.version>
     <vocabulary-lookup.version>1.0.0</vocabulary-lookup.version>
-    <registry.version>3.96.6-SNAPSHOT</registry.version>
+    <registry.version>3.96.6.1-SNAPSHOT</registry.version>
     <gbif-common-ws.version>1.26</gbif-common-ws.version>
     <gbif-postal-service.version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</gbif-postal-service.version>
     <gbif-common-spreadsheet.version>0.2</gbif-common-spreadsheet.version>
diff --git a/sdks/beam-transforms/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/transforms/core/LocationTransformTest.java b/sdks/beam-transforms/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/transforms/core/LocationTransformTest.java
index f83ac3fe35..8b850850b5 100644
--- a/sdks/beam-transforms/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/transforms/core/LocationTransformTest.java
+++ b/sdks/beam-transforms/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/transforms/core/LocationTransformTest.java
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ public void transformationTest() {
       null,
       "POLYGON((100000 515000,100000 520000,105000 520000,105000 515000,100000 515000))",
       "EPSG:28992",
-      "POLYGON ((52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827, 52.66468072273537 4.574203170903049, 52.665162889286556 4.648106265726084, 52.6202308261076 4.648860682668264, 52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827))"
+      "POLYGON ((52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827, 52.664680722735376 4.574203170903048, 52.665162889286556 4.648106265726084, 52.6202308261076 4.648860682668264, 52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827))"
     };
 
     final MetadataRecord mdr =
diff --git a/sdks/core/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/core/interpreters/core/LocationInterpreterTest.java b/sdks/core/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/core/interpreters/core/LocationInterpreterTest.java
index b41e977bf3..fcc211709c 100644
--- a/sdks/core/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/core/interpreters/core/LocationInterpreterTest.java
+++ b/sdks/core/src/test/java/org/gbif/pipelines/core/interpreters/core/LocationInterpreterTest.java
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ public void footprintWKTTest() {
         LocationRecord.newBuilder()
             .setId("1")
             .setFootprintWKT(
-                "POLYGON ((52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827, 52.66468072273537 4.574203170903049, 52.665162889286556 4.648106265726084, 52.6202308261076 4.648860682668264, 52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827))")
+                "POLYGON ((52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827, 52.664680722735376 4.574203170903048, 52.665162889286556 4.648106265726084, 52.6202308261076 4.648860682668264, 52.619749292808244 4.575033022857827))")
             .build();
 
     // When