diff --git a/archetype/pom.xml b/archetype/pom.xml
index e9bb40c75..c42ed06a3 100644
--- a/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>stormcrawler-archetype</artifactId>
     <name>stormcrawler-archetype</name>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 28e576452..8592da2ea 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>stormcrawler-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/docs/pom.xml b/docs/pom.xml
index e725c7d57..ff0d5f111 100644
--- a/docs/pom.xml
+++ b/docs/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>stormcrawler-docs</artifactId>
diff --git a/external/ai/pom.xml b/external/ai/pom.xml
index 16e4907a6..49f2439a2 100644
--- a/external/ai/pom.xml
+++ b/external/ai/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/aws/pom.xml b/external/aws/pom.xml
index c4dc9accc..b35042416 100644
--- a/external/aws/pom.xml
+++ b/external/aws/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/langid/pom.xml b/external/langid/pom.xml
index 45d1ea944..96424fb0a 100644
--- a/external/langid/pom.xml
+++ b/external/langid/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/opensearch-java/pom.xml b/external/opensearch-java/pom.xml
index 56a73169d..88cdd0329 100644
--- a/external/opensearch-java/pom.xml
+++ b/external/opensearch-java/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml b/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
index b161bf3ae..466c6febd 100644
--- a/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/opensearch/pom.xml b/external/opensearch/pom.xml
index 65a8f6c69..8062a55e7 100644
--- a/external/opensearch/pom.xml
+++ b/external/opensearch/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/playwright/pom.xml b/external/playwright/pom.xml
index 9f790827f..970ac5e72 100644
--- a/external/playwright/pom.xml
+++ b/external/playwright/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/pom.xml b/external/pom.xml
index 7de4d9bc8..86b58ab9f 100644
--- a/external/pom.xml
+++ b/external/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/selenium/pom.xml b/external/selenium/pom.xml
index b840e9054..6d2de7b6f 100644
--- a/external/selenium/pom.xml
+++ b/external/selenium/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/solr/archetype/pom.xml b/external/solr/archetype/pom.xml
index 77db1ef22..1e015cc87 100644
--- a/external/solr/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/external/solr/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/solr/dependency-reduced-pom.xml b/external/solr/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 94d2d33b4..000000000
--- a/external/solr/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,189 +0,0 @@
-<?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 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <parent>
-    <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-    <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
-    <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <artifactId>stormcrawler-solr</artifactId>
-  <name>stormcrawler-solr</name>
-  <description>Solr resources for StormCrawler</description>
-  <url>https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler/tree/master/external/solr</url>
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>package</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>shade</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <createSourcesJar>true</createSourcesJar>
-              <useBaseVersion>true</useBaseVersion>
-              <createDependencyReducedPom>true</createDependencyReducedPom>
-              <useDependencyReducedPomInJar>true</useDependencyReducedPomInJar>
-              <artifactSet>
-                <includes>
-                  <include>org.apache.solr:solr-solrj-jetty</include>
-                  <include>org.eclipse.jetty:*</include>
-                  <include>org.eclipse.jetty.http2:*</include>
-                </includes>
-              </artifactSet>
-              <relocations>
-                <relocation>
-                  <pattern>org.eclipse.jetty</pattern>
-                  <shadedPattern>org.apache.stormcrawler.solr.shaded.org.eclipse.jetty</shadedPattern>
-                </relocation>
-              </relocations>
-              <transformers>
-                <transformer />
-              </transformers>
-              <filters>
-                <filter>
-                  <artifact>*:*</artifact>
-                  <excludes>
-                    <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
-                    <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
-                    <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
-                    <exclude>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</exclude>
-                  </excludes>
-                </filter>
-              </filters>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
-      <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
-      <version>10.0.0</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
-      <artifactId>solr-solrj-zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>10.0.0</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.awaitility</groupId>
-      <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
-      <version>4.3.0</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>hamcrest</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-      <version>1.21.4</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>testcontainers</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0.18</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
-      <artifactId>stormcrawler-core</artifactId>
-      <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
-      <type>test-jar</type>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-      <artifactId>storm-client</artifactId>
-      <version>2.8.8</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>log4j-slf4j2-impl</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
-      <version>6.1.0</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>opentest4j</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.opentest4j</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>junit-platform-commons</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>apiguardian-api</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.apiguardian</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-      <version>6.1.0</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-params</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
-      <artifactId>stormcrawler-core</artifactId>
-      <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-      <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-      <version>5.23.0</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
-          <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <artifactId>byte-buddy-agent</artifactId>
-          <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-  <properties>
-    <solr.version>10.0.0</solr.version>
-  </properties>
-</project>
diff --git a/external/solr/pom.xml b/external/solr/pom.xml
index 8e72d44d3..0e8486be1 100644
--- a/external/solr/pom.xml
+++ b/external/solr/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ under the License.
                             <useBaseVersion>true</useBaseVersion>
                             <createDependencyReducedPom>true</createDependencyReducedPom>
                             <useDependencyReducedPomInJar>true</useDependencyReducedPomInJar>
+                            <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
                             <artifactSet>
                                 <includes>
                                     <include>org.apache.solr:solr-solrj-jetty</include>
diff --git a/external/sql/pom.xml b/external/sql/pom.xml
index 028b3ee3f..b472e1443 100644
--- a/external/sql/pom.xml
+++ b/external/sql/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/tika/pom.xml b/external/tika/pom.xml
index 56e2e20e8..4b602dc16 100644
--- a/external/tika/pom.xml
+++ b/external/tika/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml b/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
index 1acc5e787..a8bd8d4e0 100644
--- a/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
+++ b/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/warc/pom.xml b/external/warc/pom.xml
index 5fb8d0141..694770298 100644
--- a/external/warc/pom.xml
+++ b/external/warc/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
         <artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d579b92cd..9b8cebf64 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ under the License.
 
     <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
     <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-    <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
     <name>stormcrawler</name>
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ under the License.
 
     <properties>
         <!-- timestamp for reproducible outputs, updated on release by the release plugin -->
-        <project.build.outputTimestamp>2026-01-17T18:41:59Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
+        <project.build.outputTimestamp>2026-05-22T12:49:09Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <additionalparam>-Xdoclint:none</additionalparam>
         <!-- dependency versions -->