diff --git a/jdbc/jdbc_config.json b/jdbc/jdbc_config.json
index 387b34ae..5b5651d0 100644
--- a/jdbc/jdbc_config.json
+++ b/jdbc/jdbc_config.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
-    "pg_version": "14.3",
-    "citus_branch": "release-11.0",
+    "pg_version": "17.2",
+    "citus_branch": "release-13.0",
     "COMMENT_NOT_PARSED": "You can lookup jdbc versions at: https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html",
-    "jdbc_version": "42.3.6"
+    "jdbc_version": "42.7.4"
 }
diff --git a/jdbc/run_jdbc_tests.sh b/jdbc/run_jdbc_tests.sh
index 49cff261..15c2e124 100755
--- a/jdbc/run_jdbc_tests.sh
+++ b/jdbc/run_jdbc_tests.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ cd $project_directory
 
 # install build dependencies for pg and citus
 # based on: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#debian-based-linux-ubuntu-debian
-apt-get install -y autoconf flex libcurl4-gnutls-dev libicu-dev \
+apt-get install -y autoconf flex bison libcurl4-gnutls-dev libicu-dev \
                         libkrb5-dev liblz4-dev libpam0g-dev libreadline-dev \
                         libselinux1-dev libssl-dev libxslt1-dev libzstd-dev \
                         uuid-dev