diff --git a/components/camel-xmpp/pom.xml b/components/camel-xmpp/pom.xml
index 772a0af2a85cf..23ba3a0479c77 100644
--- a/components/camel-xmpp/pom.xml
+++ b/components/camel-xmpp/pom.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.igniterealtime.smack</groupId>
-            <artifactId>smack-java7</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>smack-java8</artifactId>
             <version>${smack-version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppBinding.java b/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppBinding.java
index b4862547c03f3..d9f7c7a9b67c3 100644
--- a/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppBinding.java
+++ b/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppBinding.java
@@ -18,15 +18,16 @@
 
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
 import org.apache.camel.spi.HeaderFilterStrategy;
 import org.apache.camel.support.DefaultHeaderFilterStrategy;
 import org.apache.camel.util.ObjectHelper;
-import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.DefaultExtensionElement;
 import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.ExtensionElement;
 import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Message;
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.StandardExtensionElement;
 import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Stanza;
 import org.jivesoftware.smackx.jiveproperties.JivePropertiesManager;
 import org.jivesoftware.smackx.jiveproperties.packet.JivePropertiesExtension;
@@ -135,8 +136,8 @@ public Map<String, Object> extractHeadersFromXmpp(Stanza stanza, Exchange exchan
         if (jpe instanceof JivePropertiesExtension) {
             extractHeadersFrom((JivePropertiesExtension) jpe, exchange, answer);
         }
-        if (jpe instanceof DefaultExtensionElement) {
-            extractHeadersFrom((DefaultExtensionElement) jpe, exchange, answer);
+        if (jpe instanceof StandardExtensionElement) {
+            extractHeadersFrom((StandardExtensionElement) jpe, exchange, answer);
         }
 
         if (stanza instanceof Message) {
@@ -165,9 +166,10 @@ private void extractHeadersFrom(JivePropertiesExtension jpe, Exchange exchange,
         }
     }
 
-    private void extractHeadersFrom(DefaultExtensionElement jpe, Exchange exchange, Map<String, Object> answer) {
-        for (String name : jpe.getNames()) {
-            Object value = jpe.getValue(name);
+    private void extractHeadersFrom(StandardExtensionElement jpe, Exchange exchange, Map<String, Object> answer) {
+        for (Entry<String, String> attributes : jpe.getAttributes().entrySet()) {
+            String name = attributes.getKey();
+            String value = attributes.getValue();
             if (!headerFilterStrategy.applyFilterToExternalHeaders(name, value, exchange)) {
                 answer.put(name, value);
             }
diff --git a/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppLogger.java b/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppLogger.java
index 48edffc949d0c..cfec90532b943 100644
--- a/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppLogger.java
+++ b/components/camel-xmpp/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppLogger.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public XmppLogger(String direction) {
     @Override
     public void processStanza(Stanza stanza) {
         if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-            LOG.debug("{} : {}", direction, stanza.toXML(null));
+            LOG.debug("{} : {}", direction, stanza.toXML());
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/components/camel-xmpp/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppTestUtil.java b/components/camel-xmpp/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppTestUtil.java
index c540951ede2d6..f1862d7f1e35d 100644
--- a/components/camel-xmpp/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppTestUtil.java
+++ b/components/camel-xmpp/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/xmpp/XmppTestUtil.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import org.apache.camel.util.ObjectHelper;
 import org.jivesoftware.smack.ConnectionConfiguration;
 import org.jivesoftware.smack.tcp.XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration;
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.util.SslContextFactory;
 import org.jxmpp.jid.impl.JidCreate;
 
 public final class XmppTestUtil {
@@ -41,14 +42,20 @@ public static void bindSSLContextTo(Registry registry, String hostAddress, int p
         keyStore.load(ObjectHelper.loadResourceAsStream("bogus_mina_tls.cer"), "boguspw".toCharArray());
         TrustManagerFactory trustManagerFactory = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
         trustManagerFactory.init(keyStore);
-        SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
+        SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.3");
         sslContext.init(null, trustManagerFactory.getTrustManagers(), null);
 
         ConnectionConfiguration connectionConfig = XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration.builder()
                 .setXmppDomain(JidCreate.domainBareFrom("apache.camel"))
                 .setHostAddress(InetAddress.getByName(hostAddress))
                 .setPort(port)
-                .setCustomSSLContext(sslContext)
+                .setSslContextFactory(new SslContextFactory() {
+
+                    @Override
+                    public SSLContext createSslContext() {
+                        return sslContext;
+                    }
+                })
                 .setHostnameVerifier((hostname, session) -> true)
                 .build();
 
diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 7120c7b78ec98..637c06c155f87 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
         <slack-api-model-version>1.48.1</slack-api-model-version>
         <slf4j-api-version>2.0.17</slf4j-api-version>
         <slf4j-version>2.0.17</slf4j-version>
-        <smack-version>4.3.5</smack-version>
+        <smack-version>4.4.8</smack-version>
         <smallrye-config-version>3.17.2</smallrye-config-version>
         <smallrye-health-version>4.3.0</smallrye-health-version>
         <smallrye-fault-tolerance-version>6.11.1</smallrye-fault-tolerance-version>