diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index e1c21b0d2..974b9ceaa 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 0.5.0
 -----
+ * Upgrade sidecar version to 0.4.0
  * Exclude IP address from RingInstance equality so node replacement does not fail bulk write jobs (CASSANALYTICS-175)
  * Regenerate bloom filters for CQLSSTableWriter (CASSANALYTICS-167)
  * Avoid Spark 4 partitioning warnings during bulk reads (CASSANALYTICS-171)
diff --git a/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/build.gradle b/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/build.gradle
index a88c0da9a..6c1c65b0f 100644
--- a/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/build.gradle
+++ b/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/build.gradle
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ dependencies {
         exclude(group: 'org.apache.logging.log4j')
         exclude(group: 'org.slf4j')
         exclude(group: 'ch.qos.logback')
+        // kafka-avro-serializer is only needed when sidecar publishes CDC events to a
+        // Schema-Registry-backed Kafka topic, which our in-jvm integration tests do not exercise.
+        exclude(group: 'io.confluent')
     }
     api(group: 'org.apache.cassandra', name: 'sidecar-server-common', version: "${sidecarVersion}")
 }
diff --git a/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/sidecar/testing/SharedClusterIntegrationTestBase.java b/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/sidecar/testing/SharedClusterIntegrationTestBase.java
index 460d8565b..a10046865 100644
--- a/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/sidecar/testing/SharedClusterIntegrationTestBase.java
+++ b/cassandra-analytics-integration-framework/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/sidecar/testing/SharedClusterIntegrationTestBase.java
@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ static InstanceMetadata buildInstanceMetadata(Vertx vertx,
                 hostName = ipAddress;
             }
             int port = tryGetIntConfig(config, "native_transport_port", 9042);
+            int storagePort = tryGetIntConfig(config, "storage_port", 7000);
             String[] dataDirectories = (String[]) config.get("data_file_directories");
             String stagingDir = stagingDir(dataDirectories);
 
@@ -762,6 +763,7 @@ static InstanceMetadata buildInstanceMetadata(Vertx vertx,
                                        .id(config.num())
                                        .host(hostName)
                                        .port(port)
+                                       .storagePort(storagePort)
                                        .dataDirs(Arrays.asList(dataDirectories))
                                        .cdcDir(config.getString("cdc_raw_directory"))
                                        .commitlogDir(config.getString("commitlog_directory"))
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 30e1aa3b9..aa3b798cb 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ description=Apache Cassandra Analytics
 analyticsJDKLevel=17
 cassandra40Version=4.0.17
 cassandra50Version=5.0.5
-sidecarVersion=0.2.0
+sidecarVersion=0.4.0
 intellijVersion=9.0.4
 junitVersion=5.10.2
 assertjCoreVersion=3.24.2