diff --git a/JavaCon/JDBC/pom.xml b/JavaCon/JDBC/pom.xml
index d4ff465b..66bffba4 100644
--- a/JavaCon/JDBC/pom.xml
+++ b/JavaCon/JDBC/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.oracle.database.jdbc</groupId>
             <artifactId>ojdbc10</artifactId>
-            <version>19.18.0.0</version>
+            <version>19.19.0.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/JavaCon/JsonIO/pom.xml b/JavaCon/JsonIO/pom.xml
index f194434b..9186666b 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>2.15.0</version>
+            <version>2.15.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
diff --git a/JavaCon/SpecialKeywords/pom.xml b/JavaCon/SpecialKeywords/pom.xml
index e800ff84..47e66412 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>21-ea+17</version>
+            <version>21-ea+24</version>
         </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/JavaCon/pom.xml b/JavaCon/pom.xml
index b7576c47..8373159d 100644
--- a/JavaCon/pom.xml
+++ b/JavaCon/pom.xml
@@ -20,21 +20,21 @@
 
         <!-- testing -->
         <junit-jupiter.version>5.9.3</junit-jupiter.version>
-        <testng.version>7.7.1</testng.version>
+        <testng.version>7.8.0</testng.version>
         <hemcrest.version>2.2</hemcrest.version>
         <assertj.version>3.24.2</assertj.version>
         <avaitility.version>1.7.0</avaitility.version>
 
         <!-- logging -->
-        <logback.version>1.4.7</logback.version>
+        <logback.version>1.4.8</logback.version>
         <slf4j-api.version>2.0.7</slf4j-api.version>
 
-        <lombok.version>1.18.26</lombok.version>
-        <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>
+        <lombok.version>1.18.28</lombok.version>
+        <commons-io.version>2.13.0</commons-io.version>
 
         <!-- reactive -->
         <rxjava.version>3.1.6</rxjava.version>
-        <projectreactor.version>2022.0.7</projectreactor.version>
+        <projectreactor.version>2022.0.9</projectreactor.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/Playground/pom.xml b/Playground/pom.xml
index b957d8cc..10261450 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>2.15.0</version>
+            <version>2.15.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.15.0</version>
+            <version>2.15.2</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.1.0</version>
+                <version>3.1.2</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <argLine>--enable-preview</argLine>
                 </configuration>
diff --git a/Testing/MutationPITesting/pom.xml b/Testing/MutationPITesting/pom.xml
index 8509bc71..acf2184d 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>1.13.1</version>
+                <version>1.14.2</version>
                 <!--                <configuration>-->
                 <!--                    <targetClasses>-->
                 <!--                        <param>com.saurabh.*</param>-->
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>org.pitest</groupId>
                         <artifactId>pitest-junit5-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.1.2</version>
+                        <version>1.2.0</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>
diff --git a/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml b/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml
index 5dd6d430..996b0c15 100644
--- a/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml
+++ b/Testing/PluralSight/pom.xml
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
-            <version>6.0.9</version>
+            <version>6.0.11</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
-            <version>6.0.9</version>
+            <version>6.0.11</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/Testing/TestContainers/pom.xml b/Testing/TestContainers/pom.xml
index e711d9ae..bee1a376 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>3.0.6</version>
+        <version>3.1.1</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
 
@@ -51,28 +51,28 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>testcontainers</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.1</version>
+            <version>1.18.3</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.1</version>
+            <version>1.18.3</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>mysql</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.1</version>
+            <version>1.18.3</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>rabbitmq</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.1</version>
+            <version>1.18.3</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
diff --git a/Testing/pom.xml b/Testing/pom.xml
index 52478df9..c1c93068 100644
--- a/Testing/pom.xml
+++ b/Testing/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <java.version>17</java.version>
         <junit.version.legacy>4.13.2</junit.version.legacy>
         <hemcrest.version>2.2</hemcrest.version>
-        <mockito.version>5.3.1</mockito.version>
+        <mockito.version>5.4.0</mockito.version>
         <junit.version.intellij.supports>5.9.3</junit.version.intellij.supports>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index c1962a79..033e24c4 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 37aef8d3..9f4197d5 100644
--- a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew
index aeb74cbb..fcb6fca1 100755
--- a/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew
+++ b/Tools/QuartzScheduler/gradlew
@@ -130,10 +130,13 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
diff --git a/Tools/aop-logging/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties b/Tools/aop-logging/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
index 3c6fda8c..6d3a5665 100644
--- a/Tools/aop-logging/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
+++ b/Tools/aop-logging/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@
 # KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
-distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.2/apache-maven-3.9.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.3/apache-maven-3.9.3-bin.zip
 wrapperUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wrapper/maven-wrapper/3.2.0/maven-wrapper-3.2.0.jar
diff --git a/Tools/aop-logging/pom.xml b/Tools/aop-logging/pom.xml
index 98f7cbe4..e54bbba2 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>3.0.6</version>
+        <version>3.1.1</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
     <groupId>com.saurabh</groupId>
diff --git a/Tools/moustache-demo/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties b/Tools/moustache-demo/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
index 3c6fda8c..6d3a5665 100644
--- a/Tools/moustache-demo/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
+++ b/Tools/moustache-demo/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@
 # KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
-distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.2/apache-maven-3.9.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.3/apache-maven-3.9.3-bin.zip
 wrapperUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wrapper/maven-wrapper/3.2.0/maven-wrapper-3.2.0.jar
diff --git a/Tools/moustache-demo/pom.xml b/Tools/moustache-demo/pom.xml
index f1fe5c7b..3ded522d 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>3.0.6</version>
+        <version>3.1.1</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
         <java.version>17</java.version>
         <mustache.compiler.api.version>0.9.10</mustache.compiler.api.version>
         <datafactory.version>0.8</datafactory.version>
-        <webjars.bootstrap.version>5.2.3</webjars.bootstrap.version>
+        <webjars.bootstrap.version>5.3.0</webjars.bootstrap.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
             <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.26</version>
+            <version>1.18.28</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.spullara.mustache.java</groupId>