diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index cc491b8..bf34e76 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ dependencies {
     compileOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation:4.1.0'
 
     // Jackson 2.x - required for Retrofit converter-jackson (Retrofit doesn't support Jackson 3 yet)
-    compileOnly 'com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310:2.22.0'
+    compileOnly 'com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310:2.22.1'
 
     // Jackson 3.x - required for Spring Boot 4 (ObjectMapper, ControllerAdvisor, Audit module)
-    compileOnly 'tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind:3.1.4'
+    compileOnly 'tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind:3.2.1'
 
     // Spring Boot Jackson - provides JsonMapperBuilderCustomizer
     compileOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-jackson:4.1.0'
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ dependencies {
     compileOnly 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-jackson:3.0.0'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.squareup.okhttp3/logging-interceptor
-    compileOnly 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:5.3.2'
+    compileOnly 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:5.4.0'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/de.siegmar/logback-gelf
     compileOnly 'de.siegmar:logback-gelf:6.1.2'
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-junit-jupiter:5.23.0'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.mock-server/mockserver-netty
-    testImplementation('org.mock-server:mockserver-netty:7.2.0') {
+    testImplementation('org.mock-server:mockserver-netty:7.4.0') {
         exclude group: 'junit', module: 'junit'
     }
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index df6a6ad..a9db115 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.5.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index b9bb139..249efbb 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 ##############################################################################
 #
-#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
+#   gradlew start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
 #
 #   Important for running:
 #
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
 #       command line, like:
 #
-#           ksh Gradle
+#           ksh gradlew
 #
 #       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
 #       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index aa5f10b..8508ef6 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 @if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem  gradlew startup script for Windows
 @rem
 @rem ##########################################################################
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 
 
-@rem Execute Gradle
+@rem Execute gradlew
 @rem endlocal doesn't take effect until after the line is parsed and variables are expanded
 @rem which allows us to clear the local environment before executing the java command
 endlocal & "%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -jar "%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar" %* & call :exitWithErrorLevel