diff --git a/testcontainers/pom.xml b/testcontainers/pom.xml
index 657173d..989790f 100644
--- a/testcontainers/pom.xml
+++ b/testcontainers/pom.xml
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
 
         <jdk.version>17</jdk.version>
 
-        <geomesa.version>5.3.0</geomesa.version>
-        <testcontainers.version>1.21.0</testcontainers.version>
-        <testcontainers.accumulo.version>1.4.1</testcontainers.accumulo.version>
+        <geomesa.version>5.4.0</geomesa.version>
+        <testcontainers.version>2.0.1</testcontainers.version>
+        <testcontainers.accumulo.version>1.6.0</testcontainers.accumulo.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
         <reload4j.version>1.2.25</reload4j.version>
 
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@
                         <version>${central.publishing.maven.plugin.version}</version>
                         <extensions>true</extensions>
                         <configuration>
+                            <autoPublish>true</autoPublish>
+                            <deploymentName>testcontainers-hbase-${project.version}</deploymentName>
                             <!-- used to lookup credentials in ~/.m2/settings.xml -->
                             <publishingServerId>sonatype</publishingServerId>
                         </configuration>
diff --git a/testcontainers/src/main/java/org/geomesa/testcontainers/hbase/HBaseContainer.java b/testcontainers/src/main/java/org/geomesa/testcontainers/hbase/HBaseContainer.java
index 76b62ee..c12a5b1 100644
--- a/testcontainers/src/main/java/org/geomesa/testcontainers/hbase/HBaseContainer.java
+++ b/testcontainers/src/main/java/org/geomesa/testcontainers/hbase/HBaseContainer.java
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 import org.testcontainers.containers.output.OutputFrame;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.output.Slf4jLogConsumer;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.wait.strategy.Wait;
-import org.testcontainers.shaded.org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
 
 import java.io.File;
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ public HBaseContainer(DockerImageName imageName) {
                             .onExit()
                             .thenApply((p) -> {
                                 try (InputStream is = p.getInputStream()) {
-                                    return IOUtils.toString(is, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).trim();
+                                    return new String(is.readAllBytes(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8).trim();
                                 } catch (IOException e) {
                                     logger.error("Error reading hostname:", e);
                                     return null;
@@ -139,7 +138,7 @@ public HBaseContainer withGeoMesaDistributedRuntime(String jarHostPath) {
      * @return contents of the hbase-site.xml
      */
     public String getHBaseSiteXml() {
-        return copyFileFromContainer("/opt/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml", (is) -> IOUtils.toString(is, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        return copyFileFromContainer("/opt/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml", (is) -> new String(is.readAllBytes(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
     }
 
     private static int getFreePort() {