diff --git a/JavaCon/JsonIO/pom.xml b/JavaCon/JsonIO/pom.xml
index 49026056..c813a195 100644
--- a/JavaCon/JsonIO/pom.xml
+++ b/JavaCon/JsonIO/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.18.2</version>
+            <version>2.18.3</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
diff --git a/JavaCon/SpecialKeywords/pom.xml b/JavaCon/SpecialKeywords/pom.xml
index 21534ed7..62d81cfc 100644
--- a/JavaCon/SpecialKeywords/pom.xml
+++ b/JavaCon/SpecialKeywords/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
             <artifactId>javafx-controls</artifactId>
-            <version>24-ea+19</version>
+            <version>25-ea+5</version>
         </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/JavaCon/pom.xml b/JavaCon/pom.xml
index 96d988b3..981675f8 100644
--- a/JavaCon/pom.xml
+++ b/JavaCon/pom.xml
@@ -19,22 +19,22 @@
         <maven.compiler.proc>full</maven.compiler.proc> <!-- https://dzone.com/articles/using-lombok-library-witk-jdk-23 -->
 
         <!-- testing -->
-        <junit-jupiter.version>5.11.4</junit-jupiter.version>
-        <testng.version>7.10.2</testng.version>
+        <junit-jupiter.version>5.12.0</junit-jupiter.version>
+        <testng.version>7.11.0</testng.version>
         <hemcrest.version>3.0</hemcrest.version>
-        <assertj.version>3.27.2</assertj.version>
+        <assertj.version>3.27.3</assertj.version>
         <avaitility.version>1.7.0</avaitility.version>
 
         <!-- logging -->
-        <logback.version>1.5.16</logback.version>
-        <slf4j-api.version>2.0.16</slf4j-api.version>
+        <logback.version>1.5.17</logback.version>
+        <slf4j-api.version>2.0.17</slf4j-api.version>
 
         <lombok.version>1.18.36</lombok.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.18.0</commons-io.version>
 
         <!-- reactive -->
         <rxjava.version>3.1.10</rxjava.version>
-        <projectreactor.version>2024.0.1</projectreactor.version>
+        <projectreactor.version>2024.0.3</projectreactor.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jetbrains</groupId>
             <artifactId>annotations</artifactId>
-            <version>26.0.1</version>
+            <version>26.0.2</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.13.0</version>
+                <version>3.14.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <release>${maven.compiler.release}</release>
                     <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
diff --git a/Playground/pom.xml b/Playground/pom.xml
index 72d4a2ef..cef97428 100644
--- a/Playground/pom.xml
+++ b/Playground/pom.xml
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
-            <version>2.18.2</version>
+            <version>2.18.3</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.18.2</version>
+            <version>2.18.3</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
             <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
-            <version>2.3</version>
+            <version>2.4</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans</groupId>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-            <version>5.11.4</version>
+            <version>5.12.0</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.13.0</version>
+                <version>3.14.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <source>11</source>
                     <target>11</target>
diff --git a/Testing/JunitBasics/pom.xml b/Testing/JunitBasics/pom.xml
index 8b344fbc..63384d27 100644
--- a/Testing/JunitBasics/pom.xml
+++ b/Testing/JunitBasics/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-platform-runner</artifactId>
-            <version>1.11.4</version>
+            <version>1.12.0</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
diff --git a/Testing/MutationPITesting/pom.xml b/Testing/MutationPITesting/pom.xml
index 9e600d2d..eeff8479 100644
--- a/Testing/MutationPITesting/pom.xml
+++ b/Testing/MutationPITesting/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.pitest</groupId>
                 <artifactId>pitest-maven</artifactId>
-                <version>1.17.3</version>
+                <version>1.18.2</version>
                 <!--                <configuration>-->
                 <!--                    <targetClasses>-->
                 <!--                        <param>com.saurabh.*</param>-->
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>org.pitest</groupId>
                         <artifactId>pitest-junit5-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.2.1</version>
+                        <version>1.2.2</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>
diff --git a/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml b/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml
index d50509fb..d5e4fe5a 100644
--- a/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml
+++ b/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.opencsv</groupId>
             <artifactId>opencsv</artifactId>
-            <version>5.9</version>
+            <version>5.10</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
-            <version>6.2.1</version>
+            <version>6.2.3</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
-            <version>6.2.1</version>
+            <version>6.2.3</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/Testing/TestContainers/pom.xml b/Testing/TestContainers/pom.xml
index 46d0a6e4..86c62c05 100644
--- a/Testing/TestContainers/pom.xml
+++ b/Testing/TestContainers/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>3.4.1</version>
+        <version>3.4.3</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
 
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
+            <groupId>com.mysql</groupId>
+            <artifactId>mysql-connector-j</artifactId>
             <version>8.0.33</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -51,28 +51,28 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>testcontainers</artifactId>
-            <version>1.20.4</version>
+            <version>1.20.5</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-            <version>1.20.4</version>
+            <version>1.20.5</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>mysql</artifactId>
-            <version>1.20.4</version>
+            <version>1.20.5</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>rabbitmq</artifactId>
-            <version>1.20.4</version>
+            <version>1.20.5</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
diff --git a/Testing/pom.xml b/Testing/pom.xml
index 610b0d08..a735a879 100644
--- a/Testing/pom.xml
+++ b/Testing/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         <junit.version.legacy>4.13.2</junit.version.legacy>
         <hemcrest.version>3.0</hemcrest.version>
         <mockito.version>5.15.2</mockito.version>
-        <junit.version.intellij.supports>5.11.4</junit.version.intellij.supports>
+        <junit.version.intellij.supports>5.12.0</junit.version.intellij.supports>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.13.0</version>
+                <version>3.14.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <source>${java.version}</source>
                     <target>${java.version}</target>
diff --git a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/build.gradle b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/build.gradle
index 36e61223..ddbfcafa 100644
--- a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/build.gradle
+++ b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/build.gradle
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ repositories {
 
 dependencies {
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.junit.jupiter/junit-jupiter-api
-    testImplementation group: 'org.junit.jupiter', name: 'junit-jupiter-api', version: '5.11.4'
+    testImplementation group: 'org.junit.jupiter', name: 'junit-jupiter-api', version: '5.12.0'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.quartz-scheduler/quartz
     implementation group: 'org.quartz-scheduler', name: 'quartz', version: '2.5.0'
diff --git a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index a4b76b95..9bbc975c 100644
Binary files a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index cea7a793..37f853b1 100644
--- a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.13-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew
index f3b75f3b..faf93008 100755
--- a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew
+++ b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ fi
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
 # Collect all arguments for the java command:
-#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
 #     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
 #   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
 #     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
diff --git a/Tools/aop-logging/pom.xml b/Tools/aop-logging/pom.xml
index be462c28..024a6db3 100644
--- a/Tools/aop-logging/pom.xml
+++ b/Tools/aop-logging/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>3.4.1</version>
+        <version>3.4.3</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
     <groupId>com.saurabh</groupId>
diff --git a/Tools/moustache-demo/pom.xml b/Tools/moustache-demo/pom.xml
index 2b433651..126bc8a1 100644
--- a/Tools/moustache-demo/pom.xml
+++ b/Tools/moustache-demo/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>3.4.1</version>
+        <version>3.4.3</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>