diff --git a/applications/processor/script-processor/pom.xml b/applications/processor/script-processor/pom.xml
index 0d31116b..4da74389 100644
--- a/applications/processor/script-processor/pom.xml
+++ b/applications/processor/script-processor/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.cloud.fn</groupId>
             <artifactId>payload-converter-function</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>${java-functions.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
diff --git a/applications/source/cdc-debezium-source/pom.xml b/applications/source/cdc-debezium-source/pom.xml
index 8751131d..850b96e3 100644
--- a/applications/source/cdc-debezium-source/pom.xml
+++ b/applications/source/cdc-debezium-source/pom.xml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 			<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-binder-kafka</artifactId>
             <!-- 3.0.8.BUILD-SNAPSHOT or newer is required because of an issue with the KafkaNullConverter -->
-			<version>3.0.8.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>3.0.8.RELEASE</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/etc/release-tools/apps-upgrade-dryrun.sh b/etc/release-tools/apps-upgrade-dryrun.sh
index 348bf9a0..b30c26ef 100755
--- a/etc/release-tools/apps-upgrade-dryrun.sh
+++ b/etc/release-tools/apps-upgrade-dryrun.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ function iterate_through_apps_folders_and_update {
   cd ../../
 
   if [[ $VERSION =~ M[0-9]|RC[0-9] ]]; then
-    lines=$(find $BASE_DIR -type f -name pom.xml | xargs grep SNAPSHOT | grep -v ".contains(" | grep -v regex | wc -l)
+    lines=$(find $BASE_DIR -type f -name pom.xml | xargs grep SNAPSHOT | grep -v ".contains(" | grep -v "<!--"| grep -v regex | wc -l)
     if [ $lines -eq 0 ]; then
      echo "All good"
     else