diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index e063ed23205..f528d4a2ab1 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@
         <cxf.httpcomponents.client.version>4.5.14</cxf.httpcomponents.client.version>
         <cxf.httpcomponents.core.version.range>[4.3,4.5.0)</cxf.httpcomponents.core.version.range>
         <cxf.httpcomponents.core.version>4.4.16</cxf.httpcomponents.core.version>
-        <cxf.httpcomponents.client5.version>5.5.1</cxf.httpcomponents.client5.version>
-        <cxf.httpcomponents.core5.version>5.3.6</cxf.httpcomponents.core5.version>
+        <cxf.httpcomponents.client5.version>5.6</cxf.httpcomponents.client5.version>
+        <cxf.httpcomponents.core5.version>5.4</cxf.httpcomponents.core5.version>
         <cxf.jackson.version>3.0.3</cxf.jackson.version>
         <cxf.jackson.databind.version>3.0.3</cxf.jackson.databind.version>
         <cxf.jackson.annotations.version>2.20</cxf.jackson.annotations.version>
diff --git a/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookServerAsyncClient.java b/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookServerAsyncClient.java
index 1420af446e9..4a30fdb6b15 100644
--- a/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookServerAsyncClient.java
+++ b/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookServerAsyncClient.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
 import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import jakarta.ws.rs.Consumes;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
 import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.lifecycle.SingletonResourceProvider;
 import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.provider.StreamingResponseProvider;
 import org.apache.cxf.testutil.common.AbstractServerTestServerBase;
+import org.apache.cxf.transport.common.gzip.GZIPFeature;
 import tools.jackson.jakarta.rs.json.JacksonJsonProvider;
 
 public class BookServerAsyncClient extends AbstractServerTestServerBase {
@@ -46,7 +48,10 @@ public class BookServerAsyncClient extends AbstractServerTestServerBase {
 
     @Override
     protected Server createServer(Bus bus) throws Exception {
-        JAXRSServerFactoryBean sf = new JAXRSServerFactoryBean();
+        final GZIPFeature gzipFeature = new GZIPFeature();
+        gzipFeature.setThreshold(1);
+
+        final JAXRSServerFactoryBean sf = new JAXRSServerFactoryBean();
         sf.setResourceClasses(BookStore.class);
         sf.setResourceProvider(BookStore.class,
                                new SingletonResourceProvider(new BookStore(), true));
@@ -55,6 +60,7 @@ protected Server createServer(Bus bus) throws Exception {
         sf.setProvider(new JacksonJsonProvider());
         sf.setProvider(new StreamingResponseProvider<Book>());
         sf.getProperties(true).put("default.content.type", "*/*");
+        sf.setFeatures(List.of(gzipFeature));
         return sf.create();
     }
 
diff --git a/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookStore.java b/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookStore.java
index abbd42acacc..c9dffd6cc8c 100644
--- a/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookStore.java
+++ b/systests/transport-hc5/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/systest/hc5/jaxrs/BookStore.java
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.StreamingOutput;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.UriInfo;
-import org.apache.cxf.annotations.GZIP;
 import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.ext.MessageContext;
 import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.ext.Oneway;
 import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.ext.PATCH;
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@
 import org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain;
 
 @Path("/bookstore")
-@GZIP(threshold = 1)
 public class BookStore {
 
     private Map<Long, Book> books = new HashMap<>();