diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8322979f2..0eb69c0aa 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
-    <BUILD_NUMBER></BUILD_NUMBER>
+    <BUILD_NUMBER/>
     <maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyyMMdd-HHmm</maven.build.timestamp.format>
     <build.timestamp>${maven.build.timestamp}</build.timestamp>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     <kv-utils-version>0.5.1</kv-utils-version>
     <etcd-java-version>0.0.22</etcd-java-version>
     <protobuf-version>3.22.0</protobuf-version>
-    <annotation-version>9.0.72</annotation-version>
+    <annotation-version>9.0.78</annotation-version>
     <guava-version>31.1-jre</guava-version>
     <jackson-databind-version>2.14.2</jackson-databind-version>
     <gson-version>2.10.1</gson-version>
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
                     </goals>
                   </pluginExecutionFilter>
                   <action>
-                    <ignore></ignore>
+                    <ignore/>
                   </action>
                 </pluginExecution>
               </pluginExecutions>