diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ff5e41398..f34aaf11c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
         <awaitility>4.3.0</awaitility>
         <logback.test>1.5.18</logback.test>
         <hibernate.validator>9.0.1.Final</hibernate.validator>
-        <netty.version>4.2.2.Final</netty.version>
+        <netty.version>4.2.6.Final</netty.version>
         <kryo.version>5.6.2</kryo.version>
         <apacheCommonsCodec.version>1.18.0</apacheCommonsCodec.version>
     </properties>
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
                     <doctitle>Spring Data Aerospike</doctitle>
                     <show>public</show>
                     <splitindex>true</splitindex>
-                    <bottom>Copyright &#169; 2020&#x2013;{currentYear} Aerospike, Inc. All rights reserved.</bottom>
+                    <bottom>Copyright © 2020–{currentYear} Aerospike, Inc. All rights reserved.</bottom>
                     <sourcepath>${basedir}/src/main/java</sourcepath>
                     <source>17</source>
                 </configuration>