diff --git a/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/TestUtils.java b/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/TestUtils.java
index 94170830d6..f0a6e1f609 100644
--- a/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/TestUtils.java
+++ b/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/TestUtils.java
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils;
+
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
 import org.apache.spark.util.EventLoop;
 
@@ -36,4 +38,8 @@ public static RssShuffleManager createShuffleManager(
       Map<String, Set<Long>> failBlockIds) {
     return new RssShuffleManager(conf, isDriver, loop, successBlockIds, failBlockIds);
   }
+
+  public static boolean isMacOnAppleSilicon() {
+    return SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX && SystemUtils.OS_ARCH.equals("aarch64");
+  }
 }
diff --git a/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/writer/RssShuffleWriterTest.java b/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/writer/RssShuffleWriterTest.java
index 81d0eec453..a943a453b5 100644
--- a/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/writer/RssShuffleWriterTest.java
+++ b/client-spark/spark3/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/shuffle/writer/RssShuffleWriterTest.java
@@ -229,11 +229,25 @@ public void onError(Throwable e) {
     assertTrue(shuffleWriteMetrics.writeTime() > 0);
     assertEquals(6, shuffleWriteMetrics.recordsWritten());
     // Spark3 and Spark2 use different version lz4, their length is different
-    assertEquals(120, shuffleWriteMetrics.bytesWritten());
+    // it can happen that 2 different platforms compress the same data differently,
+    // yet the decoded outcome remains identical to original.
+    // https://github.com/lz4/lz4/issues/812
+    if (TestUtils.isMacOnAppleSilicon()) {
+      assertEquals(144, shuffleWriteMetrics.bytesWritten());
+    } else {
+      assertEquals(120, shuffleWriteMetrics.bytesWritten());
+    }
 
     assertEquals(6, shuffleBlockInfos.size());
     for (ShuffleBlockInfo shuffleBlockInfo : shuffleBlockInfos) {
-      assertEquals(20, shuffleBlockInfo.getLength());
+      // it can happen that 2 different platforms compress the same data differently,
+      // yet the decoded outcome remains identical to original.
+      // https://github.com/lz4/lz4/issues/812
+      if (TestUtils.isMacOnAppleSilicon()) {
+        assertEquals(24, shuffleBlockInfo.getLength());
+      } else {
+        assertEquals(20, shuffleBlockInfo.getLength());
+      }
       assertEquals(22, shuffleBlockInfo.getUncompressLength());
       assertEquals(0, shuffleBlockInfo.getShuffleId());
       if (shuffleBlockInfo.getPartitionId() == 0) {
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f2b247a601..99c7849c32 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,11 +40,12 @@
     <commons-lang3.version>3.10</commons-lang3.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.9</commons-codec.version>
     <codehaus.jackson.version>1.9.13</codehaus.jackson.version>
-    <error_prone_annotations.version>2.3.4</error_prone_annotations.version>
+    <error_prone_annotations.version>2.10.0</error_prone_annotations.version>
     <execution.root>${user.dir}</execution.root>
     <fasterxml.jackson.version>2.10.0</fasterxml.jackson.version>
-    <grpc.version>1.33.0</grpc.version>
-    <guava.version>30.0-jre</guava.version>
+    <grpc.version>1.47.0</grpc.version>
+    <gson.version>2.9.0</gson.version>
+    <guava.version>31.0.1-jre</guava.version>
     <hadoop.scope>provided</hadoop.scope>
     <hadoop.version>2.8.5</hadoop.version>
     <httpclient.version>4.5.3</httpclient.version>
@@ -64,8 +65,7 @@
     <picocli.version>4.5.2</picocli.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <prometheus.simpleclient.version>0.9.0</prometheus.simpleclient.version>
-    <protobuf.version>3.12.0</protobuf.version>
-    <protoc.version>3.12.0</protoc.version>
+    <protobuf.version>3.19.2</protobuf.version>
     <roaring.bitmap.version>0.9.15</roaring.bitmap.version>
     <rss.shade.packageName>org.apache.uniffle</rss.shade.packageName>
     <skipDeploy>false</skipDeploy>
@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@
           </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
+
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+        <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+        <version>${gson.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
+
       <dependency>
         <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
         <artifactId>netty-all</artifactId>
@@ -588,7 +595,7 @@
           <version>0.6.1</version>
           <configuration>
             <protocArtifact>
-              com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protoc.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
+              com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
             </protocArtifact>
             <pluginId>grpc-java</pluginId>
             <pluginArtifact>
diff --git a/proto/pom.xml b/proto/pom.xml
index 5f474bd996..bdccb11962 100644
--- a/proto/pom.xml
+++ b/proto/pom.xml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
           <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
           <configuration>
             <protocArtifact>
-                com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.12.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
+                com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
             </protocArtifact>
             <!-- Place these in a location that compiler-plugin is already looking -->
             <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources</outputDirectory>