diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4480eef08..75b0479bd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Integrates with Spring Data, Spring Data REST and Apache Solr</description>
         <commons-text.version>1.11.0</commons-text.version>
         <jakarta-persistence-api.version>3.1.0</jakarta-persistence-api.version>
         <hibernate.version>5.6.15.Final</hibernate.version>
-        <hibernate-orm.version>6.1.7.Final</hibernate-orm.version>
+        <hibernate-orm.version>6.4.4.Final</hibernate-orm.version>
         <solr-solrj.version>9.5.0</solr-solrj.version>
         <elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client.version>7.17.18</elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client.version>
 
diff --git a/spring-content-jpa/src/test/java/internal/org/springframework/content/jpa/StoreIT.java b/spring-content-jpa/src/test/java/internal/org/springframework/content/jpa/StoreIT.java
index 1706aab15..d2144f99b 100644
--- a/spring-content-jpa/src/test/java/internal/org/springframework/content/jpa/StoreIT.java
+++ b/spring-content-jpa/src/test/java/internal/org/springframework/content/jpa/StoreIT.java
@@ -368,11 +368,6 @@ public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory(DataSource da
 			factory.setPackagesToScan(getClass().getPackage().getName());
 			factory.setDataSource(dataSource);
 
-			factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
-			HashMap<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
-			properties.put("hibernate.dialect","org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL55Dialect");
-			factory.setJpaPropertyMap(properties);
-
 			return factory;
 		}