diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7a805421..6cf590a1 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
         </contributor>
     </contributors>
 
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
     <build>
         <finalName>twelvemonkeys-${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>
         <plugins>
@@ -64,6 +68,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.5</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                     </configuration>
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>2.2</version>
+                    <version>2.4</version>
                     <inherited>true</inherited>
                     <executions>
                         <execution>
@@ -86,6 +91,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.2.1</version>
                     <inherited>true</inherited>
                     <!-- THIS DOES NOT WORK..?! -->
                     <executions>
@@ -102,11 +108,13 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.3.2</version>
                     <inherited>true</inherited>
                     <configuration>
                         <source>1.5</source>
                         <target>1.5</target>
-                        <showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
+                        <showDeprecation>false</showDeprecation>
+                        <compilerArgument>-g:lines</compilerArgument>
                         <compilerArguments>
                             <encoding>iso-8859-1</encoding>
                         </compilerArguments>
@@ -116,6 +124,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.10</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <systemProperties>
                             <property>
@@ -156,18 +165,22 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.9.1</version>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.16</version>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.6</version>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <targetJdk>1.5</targetJdk>
                 </configuration>
@@ -175,6 +188,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.10</version>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </reporting>