diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_main.yml b/.github/workflows/build_main.yml
index 02fc22b1b..213203a7f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_main.yml
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ jobs:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: [ 3.10.12 ]
+        python: [ 3.11.0 ]
         numpy: [ 1.22.4 ]
         gdal: [ 3.4.1 ]
         spark: [ 3.5.0 ]
-        R: [ 4.2.2 ]
+        R: [ 4.3.2 ]
     steps:
       - name: checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_python.yml b/.github/workflows/build_python.yml
index 1ed8ae3ff..0a884fa5e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_python.yml
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ jobs:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: [ 3.10.12 ]
+        python: [ 3.11.0 ]
         numpy: [ 1.22.4 ]
         gdal: [ 3.4.1 ]
         spark: [ 3.5.0 ]
-        R: [ 4.2.2 ]
+        R: [ 4.3.2 ]
     steps:
       - name: checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_r.yml b/.github/workflows/build_r.yml
index 25fc202e9..dfd512b43 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_r.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_r.yml
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ jobs:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: [ 3.10.12 ]
+        python: [ 3.11.0 ]
         numpy: [ 1.22.4 ]
         gdal: [ 3.4.1 ]
         spark: [ 3.5.0 ]
-        R: [ 4.2.2 ]
+        R: [ 4.3.2 ]
     steps:
       - name: checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_scala.yml b/.github/workflows/build_scala.yml
index 91a11c9e1..e815b9dc6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_scala.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_scala.yml
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ jobs:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: [ 3.10.12 ]
+        python: [ 3.11.0 ]
         numpy: [ 1.22.4 ]
         gdal: [ 3.4.1 ]
         spark: [ 3.5.0 ]
-        R: [ 4.2.2 ]
+        R: [ 4.3.2 ]
     steps:
       - name: checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index f134937f5..f3c2d9666 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: [ 3.10.12 ]
+        python: [ 3.11.0 ]
         numpy: [ 1.22.4 ]
         gdal: [ 3.4.1 ]
         spark: [ 3.5.0 ]
-        R: [ 4.2.2 ]
+        R: [ 4.3.2 ]
     steps:
       - name: checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 958fee802..69a79991f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -87,6 +87,23 @@
             <version>2.4.0</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <!-- log4j -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
+            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+            <!-- runtime scope is appropriate, but causes SBT build problems -->
+        </dependency>
         <!--geo dependencies-->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.uber</groupId>
@@ -254,9 +271,10 @@
                 <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
             </activation>
             <properties>
-                <scala.version>2.12.10</scala.version>
+                <scala.version>2.12.18</scala.version>
                 <scala.compat.version>2.12</scala.compat.version>
                 <spark.version>3.5.0</spark.version>
+                <slf4j.version>2.0.7</slf4j.version>
                 <mosaic.version>0.4.4</mosaic.version>
             </properties>
             <build>
@@ -289,9 +307,10 @@
             <!-- local testing `mvn test -PskipScoverage -DskipTests=false -Dsuite=...` -->
             <id>skipScoverage</id>
             <properties>
-                <scala.version>2.12.10</scala.version>
+                <scala.version>2.12.18</scala.version>
                 <scala.compat.version>2.12</scala.compat.version>
                 <spark.version>3.5.0</spark.version>
+                <slf4j.version>2.0.7</slf4j.version>
                 <mosaic.version>0.4.4</mosaic.version>
                 <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
                 <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 900e724a8..000000000
--- a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy tpInputOf the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-# Set everything to be logged to the console
-log4j.rootCategory=WARN, console
-log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
-log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{1}: %m%n
-
-# Set the default spark-shell log level to WARN. When running the spark-shell, the
-# log level for this class is used to overwrite the root logger's log level, so that
-# the user can have different defaults for the shell and regular Spark apps.
-log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.repl.Main=WARN
-
-# Settings to quiet third party logs that are too verbose
-log4j.logger.org.spark_project.jetty=WARN
-log4j.logger.org.spark_project.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle=ERROR
-log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$exprTyper=INFO
-log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$SparkILoopInterpreter=INFO
-log4j.logger.org.apache.parquet=ERROR
-log4j.logger.parquet=ERROR
-
-# SPARK-9183: Settings to avoid annoying messages when looking up nonexistent UDFs in SparkSQL with Hive support
-log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler=FATAL
-log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FunctionRegistry=ERROR