diff --git a/java/gradle/dependencies.gradle b/java/gradle/dependencies.gradle
index 066659ee2..acac5e4a5 100755
--- a/java/gradle/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/java/gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ versions += [
     protobuf       : "3.19.3",
     ranger         : "2.1.0",
     scala211       : "2.11.12",
-    scala          : "2.12.15",
+    scala          : "2.12.17",
     scalatest      : "3.2.10",
     scopt          : "4.0.1",
     slf4j          : "1.7.33",
     spark2         : "2.4.8",
-    spark          : "3.1.2",
+    spark          : "3.3.0",
     spotBugs       : "4.1.1",
     yetus          : "0.13.0"
 ]
diff --git a/java/kudu-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/kudu/spark/kudu/KuduContext.scala b/java/kudu-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/kudu/spark/kudu/KuduContext.scala
index 67533fda5..a0a150298 100644
--- a/java/kudu-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/kudu/spark/kudu/KuduContext.scala
+++ b/java/kudu-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/kudu/spark/kudu/KuduContext.scala
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.util.ShutdownHookManager
 import org.apache.spark.Partitioner
 import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
-import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.util.TypeUtils
+import org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.ByteArray
 import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DataType
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ class KuduContext(
     // to enable rdd sorting functions below.
     implicit val byteArrayOrdering: Ordering[Array[Byte]] = new Ordering[Array[Byte]] {
       def compare(x: Array[Byte], y: Array[Byte]): Int = {
-        TypeUtils.compareBinary(x, y)
+        ByteArray.compareBinary(x, y)
       }
     }