diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8c5b8f9..2ecd1d7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM maven:3-eclipse-temurin-17
+FROM maven:3.9.6-eclipse-temurin-17
 
 MAINTAINER Stephan Krusche <krusche@tum.de>
 
diff --git a/artemis-java-template/build.gradle b/artemis-java-template/build.gradle
index e932203..e5db5c2 100644
--- a/artemis-java-template/build.gradle
+++ b/artemis-java-template/build.gradle
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ pmd {
     ruleSets = ["$scaConfigDirectory/pmd-configuration.xml"]
     rulesMinimumPriority = 5
     ignoreFailures = true
-    toolVersion = '7.0.0'
+    toolVersion = '7.2.0'
     // exclude the test files
     pmdTest.enabled = false
     pmdMain.reports {
diff --git a/artemis-java-template/pom.xml b/artemis-java-template/pom.xml
index 060b2d3..849f428 100644
--- a/artemis-java-template/pom.xml
+++ b/artemis-java-template/pom.xml
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
         <javafx.version>17.0.8</javafx.version>
-        <mockito.version>5.11.0</mockito.version>
-        <springboot.version>3.2.4</springboot.version>
-        <bytebuddy.version>1.14.13</bytebuddy.version>
+        <mockito.version>5.12.0</mockito.version>
+        <springboot.version>3.3.0</springboot.version>
+        <bytebuddy.version>1.14.17</bytebuddy.version>
         <scaConfigDirectory>${project.basedir}/staticCodeAnalysisConfig</scaConfigDirectory>
         <analyzeTests>false</analyzeTests>
     </properties>
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.17.0</version>
+            <version>2.17.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jsonschema2pojo</groupId>
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
                         <artifactId>tycho-compiler-jdt</artifactId>
-                        <version>4.0.7</version>
+                        <version>4.0.8</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
             </plugin>
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                        <version>10.15.0</version>
+                        <version>10.17.0</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>
@@ -359,12 +359,12 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
                         <artifactId>pmd-core</artifactId>
-                        <version>7.0.0</version>
+                        <version>7.2.0</version>
                     </dependency>
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
                         <artifactId>pmd-java</artifactId>
-                        <version>7.0.0</version>
+                        <version>7.2.0</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>