diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index 82635f6f91c33..77082ecd34099 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
         <infinispan.version>15.0.5.Final</infinispan.version>
         <infinispan.protostream.version>5.0.5.Final</infinispan.protostream.version>
         <caffeine.version>3.1.5</caffeine.version>
-        <netty.version>4.1.110.Final</netty.version>
+        <netty.version>4.1.111.Final</netty.version>
         <brotli4j.version>1.16.0</brotli4j.version>
         <reactive-streams.version>1.0.4</reactive-streams.version>
         <jboss-logging.version>3.6.0.Final</jboss-logging.version>
diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/grpc-service-consumption.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/grpc-service-consumption.adoc
index b22b313b1da9c..5fb6f420708d6 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/grpc-service-consumption.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/grpc-service-consumption.adoc
@@ -211,8 +211,6 @@ The `client-name` is the name set in the `@GrpcClient` or derived from the injec
 The following examples uses _hello_ as the client name.
 Don't forget to replace it with the name you used in the `@GrpcClient` annotation.
 
-IMPORTANT: When you enable `quarkus.grpc.clients."client-name".use-quarkus-grpc-client`, you are then using the new Vert.x gRPC channel implementation, so not all configuration properties can still be applied. And currently there is no Stork support yet.
-
 IMPORTANT: When you enable `quarkus.grpc.clients."client-name".xds.enabled`, it's the xDS that should handle most of the configuration above.
 
 === Enabling TLS
diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/stork-reference.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/stork-reference.adoc
index 0e7c9ec907b0d..138a07a989418 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/stork-reference.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/stork-reference.adoc
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ include::{includes}/extension-status.adoc[]
 The current integration of Stork supports:
 
 * the REST Client
-* the gRPC clients
+* the gRPC clients (using the Vert.x gRPC client is recommended)
 
 Warning: The gRPC client integration does not support statistic-based load balancers.
 
diff --git a/integration-tests/grpc-stork-response-time/src/test/java/io/quarkus/grpc/examples/stork/GrpcStorkResponseTimeCollectionTest.java b/integration-tests/grpc-stork-response-time/src/test/java/io/quarkus/grpc/examples/stork/GrpcStorkResponseTimeCollectionTest.java
index 2cd13722866fa..05043f8b73555 100644
--- a/integration-tests/grpc-stork-response-time/src/test/java/io/quarkus/grpc/examples/stork/GrpcStorkResponseTimeCollectionTest.java
+++ b/integration-tests/grpc-stork-response-time/src/test/java/io/quarkus/grpc/examples/stork/GrpcStorkResponseTimeCollectionTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 package io.quarkus.grpc.examples.stork;
 
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
 import io.quarkus.test.junit.QuarkusTest;
 
 @QuarkusTest
 class GrpcStorkResponseTimeCollectionTest extends GrpcStorkResponseTimeCollectionTestBase {
+
+    @Test
+    @Disabled("Disabled because of https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/commit/8844cf7b87a04dd2d2e4a74cd0f0e3f4fed14113 which does not call the load balancer for each call anymore.")
+    public void shouldCallConfigurableIfFaster() {
+
+    }
 }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ca5caa1edb811..5ac3343afc0ef 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@
         <hibernate-search.version>7.1.1.Final</hibernate-search.version>
 
         <!-- Make sure to check compatibility between these 2 gRPC components before upgrade -->
-        <grpc.version>1.64.0</grpc.version> <!-- when updating, verify if com.google.auth should not be updated too -->
-        <grpc-jprotoc.version>1.2.1</grpc-jprotoc.version>
-        <protoc.version>3.25.0</protoc.version>
+        <grpc.version>1.65.0</grpc.version> <!-- when updating, verify if com.google.auth should not be updated too -->
+        <grpc-jprotoc.version>1.2.2</grpc-jprotoc.version>
+        <protoc.version>3.25.3</protoc.version>
         <protobuf-java.version>${protoc.version}</protobuf-java.version>
         <proto-google-common-protos.version>2.39.1</proto-google-common-protos.version>