diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a62f1889f..f96e2cb8b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Changed
 
 - all: Use our build-repo to cache NPM dependencies ([#1219])
+- java: Use a more recent Maven version for all Java based products ([#1220])
 
 [#1219]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1219
+[#1220]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1220
 
 ## [25.7.0] - 2025-07-23
 
diff --git a/druid/Dockerfile b/druid/Dockerfile
index f4caf5645..9eeb3263d 100644
--- a/druid/Dockerfile
+++ b/druid/Dockerfile
@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ cp -r /stackable/patched-libs/maven/* /stackable/.m2/repository
 tar -czf /stackable/druid-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 
 mvn \
-  --batch-mode \
-  --no-transfer-progress \
   clean install \
   -Pdist,stackable-bundle-contrib-exts \
   -Dhadoop.compile.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE} \
diff --git a/hadoop/Dockerfile b/hadoop/Dockerfile
index 5647d6c57..0d2e447d1 100644
--- a/hadoop/Dockerfile
+++ b/hadoop/Dockerfile
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ cp -r /stackable/patched-libs/maven/* /stackable/.m2/repository
 tar -czf /stackable/hdfs-utils-${HDFS_UTILS}-src.tar.gz .
 
 mvn \
-    --batch-mode \
-    --no-transfer-progress\
     clean package \
     -P hadoop-${HADOOP_VERSION} \
     -Dhadoop.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE} \
diff --git a/hadoop/hadoop/Dockerfile b/hadoop/hadoop/Dockerfile
index 2a90d34e1..342eef556 100644
--- a/hadoop/hadoop/Dockerfile
+++ b/hadoop/hadoop/Dockerfile
@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ tar -czf /stackable/hadoop-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 # Therefore, this build does work but the final image does NOT contain the openssl-devel package which is why it fails there which is why we have to create the symlink over there manually.
 # We still leave this flag in to automatically fail should anything with the packages or symlinks ever fail.
 mvn \
-    --batch-mode \
-    --no-transfer-progress \
     clean package install \
     -Pdist,native \
     -pl '!hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes' \
diff --git a/hbase/hbase-opa-authorizer/Dockerfile b/hbase/hbase-opa-authorizer/Dockerfile
index 776f578c8..78f5a7115 100644
--- a/hbase/hbase-opa-authorizer/Dockerfile
+++ b/hbase/hbase-opa-authorizer/Dockerfile
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ if [[ -n "$PRODUCT" ]]; then
     # Create snapshot of the source code including custom patches
     tar -czf /stackable/hbase-opa-authorizer-${PRODUCT}-src.tar.gz .
     mvn \
-      --batch-mode \
-      --no-transfer-progress \
       -DskipTests \
       -Dmaven.test.skip=true \
       package
diff --git a/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile
index 7f5226aeb..26ce48f69 100644
--- a/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile
+++ b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=$NEW_VERSION
 tar -czf /stackable/hbase-operator-tools-${FULL_HBASE_OPERATOR_TOOLS_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 
 mvn \
-  --batch-mode \
-  --no-transfer-progress \
   -Dhbase.version=${PATCHED_HBASE_VERSION} \
   -Dhbase-thirdparty.version=${HBASE_THIRDPARTY} \
   -DskipTests \
diff --git a/hbase/hbase/Dockerfile b/hbase/hbase/Dockerfile
index 937b045a2..63dbdef99 100644
--- a/hbase/hbase/Dockerfile
+++ b/hbase/hbase/Dockerfile
@@ -54,16 +54,12 @@ tar -czf /stackable/hbase-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 # I chose to replicate that exact behavior for consistency so please don't merge the two mvn runs into one unless you really know what you're doing!
 # Cannot skip building tests here because the assembly plugin needs a shell script from the test directory.
 mvn \
-  --batch-mode \
-  --no-transfer-progress \
   -Dhadoop.profile=3.0 \
   -Dhadoop-three.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE} \
   -DskipTests \
   clean install
 
 mvn \
-  --batch-mode \
-  --no-transfer-progress \
   -Dhadoop.profile=3.0 \
   -Dhadoop-three.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE} \
   -DskipTests \
diff --git a/hbase/phoenix/Dockerfile b/hbase/phoenix/Dockerfile
index 9205a76c4..4cad25c75 100644
--- a/hbase/phoenix/Dockerfile
+++ b/hbase/phoenix/Dockerfile
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ tar -czf /stackable/phoenix-${PRODUCT}-stackable${RELEASE}-src.tar.gz .
 # The Maven command can be found inside of the scripts in the create-release folder (release-util.sh as of Phoenix 5.2.0)
 # https://github.com/apache/phoenix/tree/5.2.0/dev/create-release
 mvn \
-  --batch-mode \
-  --no-transfer-progress \
   -Dhbase.version=${HBASE_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE} \
   -Dhbase.profile=${HBASE_PROFILE} \
   -Dhadoop.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE} \
diff --git a/hive/Dockerfile b/hive/Dockerfile
index a49be4556..f182975f0 100644
--- a/hive/Dockerfile
+++ b/hive/Dockerfile
@@ -56,13 +56,19 @@ mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=$NEW_VERSION -DartifactId=* -DgroupId=* -Dgenerate
 tar -czf /stackable/hive-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 
 if [[ "${PRODUCT}" == "3.1.3" ]] ; then
-  mvn --batch-mode --no-transfer-progress clean package -DskipTests --projects standalone-metastore
+  mvn \
+   clean package \
+   -DskipTests \
+    --projects standalone-metastore
   mv standalone-metastore/target/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin /stackable
   mv standalone-metastore/target/bom.json /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}.cdx.json
 else
   (
     # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20451 switched the metastore server packaging starting with 4.0.0
-    mvn --batch-mode --no-transfer-progress clean package -DskipTests -Dhadoop.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE}
+    mvn \
+    clean package \
+    -DskipTests \
+    -Dhadoop.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE}
 
     # We only seem to get a .tar.gz archive, so let's extract that to the correct location
     tar --extract --directory=/stackable -f standalone-metastore/metastore-server/target/apache-hive-standalone-metastore-server-${NEW_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz
diff --git a/java-devel/Dockerfile b/java-devel/Dockerfile
index a1e06477a..8a4343aed 100644
--- a/java-devel/Dockerfile
+++ b/java-devel/Dockerfile
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ FROM stackable/image/stackable-devel
 ARG PRODUCT
 ARG STACKABLE_USER_UID
 
+# Find the latest version here: https://github.com/apache/maven
+# renovate: datasource=github-tags packageName=apache/maven
+ARG MAVEN_VERSION="3.9.10"
+
 # See: https://adoptium.net/en-gb/installation/linux/#_centosrhelfedora_instructions
 RUN cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/adoptium.repo
 [Adoptium]
@@ -46,7 +50,6 @@ microdnf install \
   krb5-devel \
   libcurl-devel \
   make \
-  maven \
   openssl-devel \
   `# Required to unpack Omid tarball` \
   tar \
@@ -56,9 +59,15 @@ microdnf install \
   zlib-devel
 microdnf clean all
 rm -rf /var/cache/yum
+
+curl "https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/maven/apache-maven-${MAVEN_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz" | tar -xzC /tmp
+mv /tmp/apache-maven-${MAVEN_VERSION} /opt/maven
+ln -s /opt/maven/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
+
 EOF
 
 ENV JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/temurin-${PRODUCT}-jdk"
+ENV MAVEN_ARGS="--batch-mode --no-transfer-progress"
 
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 java-devel/stackable/settings.xml /stackable/.m2/settings.xml
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 java-devel/stackable/settings.xml /root/.m2/settings.xml
diff --git a/nifi/Dockerfile b/nifi/Dockerfile
index 49e4092b8..d40385498 100644
--- a/nifi/Dockerfile
+++ b/nifi/Dockerfile
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ FROM stackable/image/java-devel AS nifi-builder
 
 ARG PRODUCT
 ARG RELEASE
-ARG MAVEN_VERSION="3.9.8"
 ARG STACKABLE_USER_UID
 
 RUN <<EOF
@@ -18,20 +17,6 @@ microdnf clean all
 rm -rf /var/cache/yum
 EOF
 
-# NOTE: From NiFi 2.0.0 upwards Apache Maven 3.9.6+ is required. As of 2024-07-04 the java-devel image
-# ships 3.6.3. This will update maven accordingly depending on the version. The error is due to the maven-enforer-plugin.
-#
-# [ERROR] Rule 2: org.apache.maven.enforcer.rules.version.RequireMavenVersion failed with message:
-# [ERROR] Detected Maven Version: 3.6.3 is not in the allowed range [3.9.6,).
-#
-RUN <<EOF
-if [[ "${PRODUCT}" != 1.* ]] ; then
-    cd /tmp
-    curl "https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/maven/apache-maven-${MAVEN_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz" | tar -xzC .
-    ln -sf /tmp/apache-maven-${MAVEN_VERSION}/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
-fi
-EOF
-
 USER ${STACKABLE_USER_UID}
 WORKDIR /stackable
 
@@ -57,9 +42,17 @@ tar -czf /stackable/nifi-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 # NOTE: Since NiFi 2.0.0 PutIceberg Processor and services were removed, so including the `include-iceberg` profile does nothing.
 # Additionally some modules were moved to optional build profiles, so we need to add `include-hadoop` to get `nifi-parquet-nar` for example.
 if [[ "${PRODUCT}" != 1.* ]] ; then
-    mvn --batch-mode --no-transfer-progress clean install -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -DskipTests --activate-profiles include-hadoop,include-hadoop-aws,include-hadoop-azure,include-hadoop-gcp
+    mvn \
+    clean install \
+    -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true \
+    -DskipTests \
+    --activate-profiles include-hadoop,include-hadoop-aws,include-hadoop-azure,include-hadoop-gcp
 else
-    mvn --batch-mode --no-transfer-progress clean install -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -DskipTests --activate-profiles include-iceberg,include-hadoop-aws,include-hadoop-azure,include-hadoop-gcp
+    mvn \
+    clean install \
+    -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true \
+    -DskipTests \
+    --activate-profiles include-iceberg,include-hadoop-aws,include-hadoop-azure,include-hadoop-gcp
 fi
 
 # Copy the binaries to the /stackable folder
@@ -118,8 +111,6 @@ if [[ "${PRODUCT}" != 1.* ]] ; then
     sed -i -e "s/{{ NIFI_VERSION }}/${PRODUCT}/g" pom.xml
 
     mvn \
-        --batch-mode \
-        --no-transfer-progress\
         clean package \
         -D nifi.version=${PRODUCT} \
         -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true \
@@ -161,8 +152,6 @@ cd "$(/stackable/patchable --images-repo-root=src checkout nifi/opa-plugin ${NIF
 tar -czf /stackable/nifi-opa-plugin-${NIFI_OPA_AUTHORIZER_PLUGIN}-src.tar.gz .
 
 mvn \
-    --batch-mode \
-    --no-transfer-progress \
     clean package \
     -DskipTests \
     -Pnifi-${PRODUCT}
diff --git a/omid/Dockerfile b/omid/Dockerfile
index ccf747b94..33e6e760d 100644
--- a/omid/Dockerfile
+++ b/omid/Dockerfile
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,id=maven-omid-${PRODUCT},uid=${STACKABLE_USER_UID},target
 
   # Create snapshot of the source code including custom patches
   tar -czf /stackable/omid-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
-  mvn --batch-mode --no-transfer-progress package -Phbase-2 -DskipTests
+  mvn package -Phbase-2 -DskipTests
   tar -xf tso-server/target/omid-tso-server-${NEW_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz -C /stackable
   sed -i "s/${NEW_VERSION}/${ORIGINAL_VERSION}/g" tso-server/target/bom.json
   mv tso-server/target/bom.json /stackable/omid-tso-server-${NEW_VERSION}/omid-tso-server-${NEW_VERSION}.cdx.json
diff --git a/spark-k8s/Dockerfile b/spark-k8s/Dockerfile
index bdd4c7925..8e8399105 100644
--- a/spark-k8s/Dockerfile
+++ b/spark-k8s/Dockerfile
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@ export JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS="\
 
 # Get the Scala version used by Spark
 SCALA_VERSION=$( \
-    mvn --quiet --non-recursive --no-transfer-progress --batch-mode --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
+    mvn --quiet --non-recursive --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
     org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.5.0:evaluate \
     -DforceStdout \
     -Dexpression='project.properties(scala.version)')
 
 # Get the Scala binary version used by Spark
 SCALA_BINARY_VERSION=$( \
-    mvn --quiet --non-recursive  --no-transfer-progress --batch-mode --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
+    mvn --quiet --non-recursive --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
     org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.5.0:evaluate \
     -DforceStdout \
     -Dexpression='project.properties(scala.binary.version)')
@@ -102,8 +102,6 @@ SCALA_BINARY_VERSION=$( \
 #     at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.LocalHBaseCluster.startup(LocalHBaseCluster.java:407)
 #     at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MiniHBaseCluster.init(MiniHBaseCluster.java:250)
 mvn \
-    --batch-mode \
-    --no-transfer-progress \
     --define spark.version="${PRODUCT}" \
     --define scala.version="${SCALA_VERSION}" \
     --define scala.binary.version="${SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}" \
@@ -122,7 +120,7 @@ cd /stackable/spark/jars
 # Spark contains only log4j-slf4j2-impl-x.x.x.jar but not
 # log4j-slf4j-impl-x.x.x.jar. It is okay to have both JARs in the
 # classpath as long as they have the same version.
-mvn --quiet --non-recursive --no-transfer-progress --batch-mode --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
+mvn --non-recursive --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
     dependency:copy \
     -Dartifact=org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j-impl:'${log4j.version}' \
     -DoutputDirectory=./jars
@@ -150,9 +148,6 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 ARG TINI
 ARG RELEASE
 ARG STACKABLE_USER_UID
-# Find the latest version here: https://github.com/apache/maven
-# renovate: datasource=github-tags packageName=apache/maven
-ARG MAVEN_VERSION="3.9.10"
 
 WORKDIR /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}-stackable${RELEASE}
 
@@ -169,25 +164,15 @@ RUN <<EOF
     # Make Maven aware of custom Stackable libraries
     mv /stackable/patched-libs/maven /root/.m2/repository
 
-    # We download the Maven binary from our own repository because:
-    #
-    # 1. The UBI Maven version is too old:
-    #   134.0 [ERROR] Detected Maven Version: 3.6.3 is not in the allowed range [3.8.8,)
-    # 2. The Maven download from archive.apache.org is not working reliably:
-    curl "https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/maven/apache-maven-${MAVEN_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz" | tar -xzC /tmp
-
     ORIGINAL_VERSION="${PRODUCT}"
     NEW_VERSION="${PRODUCT}-stackable${RELEASE}"
 
     export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xss64m -Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1g"
 
     ./dev/make-distribution.sh \
-    --mvn /tmp/apache-maven-${MAVEN_VERSION}/bin/mvn \
     -Dhadoop.version="${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE}" \
     -DskipTests \
-    -P'hadoop-3' -Pkubernetes -Phive -Phive-thriftserver \
-    --no-transfer-progress \
-    --batch-mode
+    -P'hadoop-3' -Pkubernetes -Phive -Phive-thriftserver
 
     sed -i "s/${NEW_VERSION}/${ORIGINAL_VERSION}/g" assembly/target/bom.json
 EOF
@@ -200,7 +185,7 @@ RUN <<EOF
 
     # Get the Scala binary version
     SCALA_BINARY_VERSION=$( \
-        mvn --quiet --non-recursive --no-transfer-progress --batch-mode --file pom.xml \
+        mvn --quiet --non-recursive --file pom.xml \
         org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.5.0:evaluate \
         -DforceStdout \
         -Dexpression='project.properties(scala.binary.version)')
diff --git a/trino/storage-connector/Dockerfile b/trino/storage-connector/Dockerfile
index e1bbcb8f3..b10ff4035 100644
--- a/trino/storage-connector/Dockerfile
+++ b/trino/storage-connector/Dockerfile
@@ -32,10 +32,7 @@ tar -czf /stackable/trino-storage-connector-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 
 mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=${NEW_VERSION}
 
-# We need to use ./mvnw instead of mvn to get a recent maven version (which is required to build Trino)
-./mvnw \
-  --batch-mode \
-  --no-transfer-progress \
+mvn \
   package \
   -DskipTests `# Skip test execution` \
   -Ddep.trino.version=${NEW_VERSION} `# Use custom Stackable Trino version in tests` \
diff --git a/trino/trino/Dockerfile b/trino/trino/Dockerfile
index 89fb1d846..59c2d65fd 100644
--- a/trino/trino/Dockerfile
+++ b/trino/trino/Dockerfile
@@ -42,10 +42,7 @@ if [ "$PRODUCT" = "470" ] || [ "$PRODUCT" = "451" ]; then
   SKIP_PROJECTS="$SKIP_PROJECTS,!core/trino-server-rpm"
 fi
 
-# We need to use ./mvnw instead of mvn to get a recent maven version (which is required to build Trino)
-./mvnw \
-  --batch-mode \
-  --no-transfer-progress \
+mvn \
   install \
   `# -Dmaven.test.skip # Unable to skip test compilation without an unused dependency error for software.amazon.awssdk:identity-spi` \
   -DskipTests `# Skip test execution` \
diff --git a/zookeeper/Dockerfile b/zookeeper/Dockerfile
index 22e22e9a2..5cef69917 100644
--- a/zookeeper/Dockerfile
+++ b/zookeeper/Dockerfile
@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ tar -czf /stackable/zookeeper-${NEW_VERSION}-src.tar.gz .
 
 # Exclude the `zookeeper-client` submodule, this is not needed and has c parts
 # that created all kinds of issues for the build container
-mvn --batch-mode --no-transfer-progress -pl "!zookeeper-client/zookeeper-client-c" clean install checkstyle:check spotbugs:check -DskipTests -Pfull-build
+mvn \
+  -pl "!zookeeper-client/zookeeper-client-c" \
+  clean install checkstyle:check spotbugs:check \
+  -DskipTests \
+  -Pfull-build
 
 # Unpack the archive which contains the build artifacts from above. Remove some
 # unused files to shrink the final image size.