diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 277ed422b7..f05d949d43 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -135,8 +135,9 @@
     <h2gis.version>2.2.5</h2gis.version>
     <morphia.version>2.5.3</morphia.version>
     <jmh.version>1.37</jmh.version>
-    <kotlin.version>2.3.21</kotlin.version>
+    <kotlin.version>2.4.0</kotlin.version>
     <ksp.version>2.3.9</ksp.version>
+    <kctfork.version>0.13.0</kctfork.version>
     <kotlinpoet.version>2.3.0</kotlinpoet.version>
     <dokka.version>2.2.0</dokka.version>
     <scala.version>2.13.16</scala.version>
diff --git a/querydsl-examples/querydsl-example-kotlin-mongodb/pom.xml b/querydsl-examples/querydsl-example-kotlin-mongodb/pom.xml
index aadfb948d7..edde7ea173 100644
--- a/querydsl-examples/querydsl-example-kotlin-mongodb/pom.xml
+++ b/querydsl-examples/querydsl-example-kotlin-mongodb/pom.xml
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
             <goals>
               <goal>kapt</goal>
             </goals>
+            <phase>process-sources</phase>
             <configuration>
               <sourceDirs>
                 <sourceDir>src/main/kotlin</sourceDir>
diff --git a/querydsl-tooling/querydsl-ksp-codegen/pom.xml b/querydsl-tooling/querydsl-ksp-codegen/pom.xml
index 367344a1b4..be9d6a02e7 100644
--- a/querydsl-tooling/querydsl-ksp-codegen/pom.xml
+++ b/querydsl-tooling/querydsl-ksp-codegen/pom.xml
@@ -61,13 +61,13 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>dev.zacsweers.kctfork</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-      <version>0.12.1</version>
+      <version>${kctfork.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>dev.zacsweers.kctfork</groupId>
       <artifactId>ksp</artifactId>
-      <version>0.12.1</version>
+      <version>${kctfork.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <!-- com.google.devtools.ksp:symbol-processing is a pom-packaged aggregator;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Align KSP runtime artifacts with the API version pinned in the root pom.
-         kctfork 0.12.1 pulls in 2.3.4; the API is at ${ksp.version}=2.3.7. The
+         kctfork pulls in 2.3.4; the API is at ${ksp.version}=2.3.7. The
          mismatch can surface as KaInvalidLifetimeOwnerAccessException at runtime. -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.devtools.ksp</groupId>