diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7a5c7791e..f93de7ef3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@
 		<springdata.commons>4.1.0-SNAPSHOT</springdata.commons>
 
 		<!-- version of the ElasticsearchClient	-->
-		<elasticsearch-java>9.4.1</elasticsearch-java>
+		<elasticsearch-java>9.4.2</elasticsearch-java>
 		<elasticsearch-rest-client>9.4.1</elasticsearch-rest-client>
 
 		<hoverfly>0.20.2</hoverfly>
@@ -515,4 +514,4 @@
 		</repository>
 	</repositories>
 
-</project>
+</project>
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