diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index db19645..4ff9399 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 			"version": "3.12"
 		},
 		"ghcr.io/mpriscella/features/sops:1": {
-			"version": "v3.7.3"
+			"version": "v3.13.3"
 		},
 		"ghcr.io/eitsupi/devcontainer-features/jq-likes:2": {
 			"jqVersion": "os-provided",
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@
 			"destination_dir": "/usr/local/bin"
 		},
 		"ghcr.io/itsmechlark/features/trivy:1": {
-			"version": "0.53"
+			"version": "0.72.0"
 		},
 		"ghcr.io/robbert229/devcontainer-features/postgresql-client:1": {
-			"version": "15"
+			"version": "18"
 		},
 		"ghcr.io/schlich/cst-devcontainer-feature/container-structure-test:1": {
 			"addAlias": true
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6effeb8..494838e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Use secure Wolfi base image (without Python installed)
-FROM cgr.dev/chainguard/wolfi-base@sha256:1c56f3ceb1c9929611a1cc7ab7a5fde1ec5df87add282029cd1596b8eae5af67 AS builder
+FROM cgr.dev/chainguard/wolfi-base@sha256:003627df3c1e1bba0c4116afcddb314aca9594ee2328c7e876a8081a6c988b2e AS builder
 # Do not cache the Python bytecode (aka don't create__pycache__ folders)
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 # Do not buffer stdout/stderr
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 WORKDIR /middleware
 # Install python and needed build tools
 RUN apk add --no-cache \
-    python-3.12=3.12.12-r4 \
-    py3.12-pip=26.0.1-r0 \
-    python-3.12-dev=3.12.12-r4 \
-    jq=1.8.1-r3 \
+    python-3.12=3.12.13-r10 \
+    py3.12-pip=26.1.2-r1 \
+    python-3.12-dev=3.12.13-r10 \
+    jq=1.8.2-r0 \
     build-base=1-r9
 # Set the user to nonroot. It's defined in the Wolfi base image with the user id 65532
 USER nonroot
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt --user
 # Actually we would like to use the Wolfi python image for the runtime as it contains even less software (e.g. no shell)
 # and thus a smaller attack surface. Unfortunately the Wolfi project only features the current development versions of
 # images for free. The older but stable python 3.11 is not available.
-FROM cgr.dev/chainguard/wolfi-base@sha256:1c56f3ceb1c9929611a1cc7ab7a5fde1ec5df87add282029cd1596b8eae5af67
+FROM cgr.dev/chainguard/wolfi-base@sha256:003627df3c1e1bba0c4116afcddb314aca9594ee2328c7e876a8081a6c988b2e
 # Set the working directory in the container
 # copy python packages from builder stage
 COPY --from=builder /home/nonroot/.local /home/nonroot/.local
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
 # Create output directory (mountpoint)
 # and set permissions of the middleware folder
 RUN apk add --no-cache \
-        python-3.12=3.12.12-r4 \
-        py3.12-setuptools=82.0.0-r0 \
-        git=2.53.0-r0 \
-        jq=1.8.1-r3 \
-        openssh-client=10.2_p1-r3 && \
+        python-3.12=3.12.13-r10 \
+        py3.12-setuptools=83.0.0-r0 \
+        git=2.55.0-r4 \
+        jq=1.8.2-r0 \
+        openssh-client=10.4_p1-r1 && \
     chown -R nonroot:nonroot /middleware /test && \
     chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
 WORKDIR /
diff --git a/middleware/http_session/__init__.py b/middleware/http_session/__init__.py
index 97be873..f79f0dc 100644
--- a/middleware/http_session/__init__.py
+++ b/middleware/http_session/__init__.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 from middleware.utils.tracer import traced
 
+USER_AGENT = "FAIRagro-Harvester/1.0 (harvestmaster@fairagro.net)"
+
 
 class HttpSessionConfig(NamedTuple):
     """
@@ -78,7 +80,12 @@ def __init__(self, config: HttpSessionConfig) -> None:
                 total=None,
                 sock_read=config.receive_timeout,
                 sock_connect=config.connect_timeout)
-            super().__init__(connector=connector, timeout=timeout, raise_for_status=True)
+            super().__init__(
+                connector=connector,
+                timeout=timeout,
+                raise_for_status=True,
+                headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT},
+            )
         except Exception as e:
             raise HttpSessionArgumentError(
                 "Could not create HttpSession object") from e
diff --git a/middleware/http_session/test/test_http_session.py b/middleware/http_session/test/test_http_session.py
index 91ed2d2..3030c8f 100644
--- a/middleware/http_session/test/test_http_session.py
+++ b/middleware/http_session/test/test_http_session.py
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ class TestHttpSession(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
     async def asyncSetUp(self):
         self.session = HttpSession(config=MagicMock())
 
+    async def asyncTearDown(self):
+        await self.session.close()
+
     @patch("middleware.http_session.trace.get_tracer")
     @patch("middleware.http_session.chardet.detect", return_value={"encoding": "utf-8"})
     @patch("middleware.http_session.HttpSession.get")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 643f334..efa0232 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,57 +1,58 @@
 aiofiles==25.1.0
-aiohappyeyeballs==2.6.1
-aiohttp==3.13.3
+aiohappyeyeballs==2.7.1
+aiohttp==3.14.3
 aiosignal==1.4.0
-attrs==25.4.0
+attrs==26.1.0
 backoff==2.2.1
-beautifulsoup4==4.14.3
-certifi==2026.1.4
-chardet==5.2.0
-charset-normalizer==3.4.4
+beautifulsoup4==4.15.0
+certifi==2026.7.22
+chardet==7.4.3
+charset-normalizer==3.4.9
 Deprecated==1.3.1
 extruct==0.18.0
 frozenlist==1.8.0
 gitdb==4.0.12
-GitPython==3.1.46
-googleapis-common-protos==1.72.0
+GitPython==3.1.57
+googleapis-common-protos==1.75.0
+# Cap below 1.80: grpcio 1.80–1.83 regresses subprocess.Popen (grpc/grpc#42062)
 grpcio==1.78.0
 html5lib==1.1
 html_text==0.7.1
-idna==3.11
-importlib_metadata==8.7.1
+idna==3.18
+importlib_metadata==9.0.0
 isodate==0.7.2
 jstyleson==0.0.2
-lxml==6.0.2
-lxml_html_clean==0.4.3
+lxml==6.1.1
+lxml_html_clean==0.4.5
 mf2py==2.0.1
 multidict==6.7.1
-opentelemetry-api==1.39.1
-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common==1.39.1
-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.39.1
-opentelemetry-instrumentation==0.60b1
-opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiohttp-client==0.60b1
-opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests==0.60b1
-opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib==0.60b1
-opentelemetry-proto==1.39.1
-opentelemetry-sdk==1.39.1
-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.60b1
-opentelemetry-util-http==0.60b1
-packaging==26.0
-propcache==0.4.1
-protobuf==6.33.5
+opentelemetry-api==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation==0.65b0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiohttp-client==0.65b0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests==0.65b0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib==0.65b0
+opentelemetry-proto==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-sdk==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.65b0
+opentelemetry-util-http==0.65b0
+packaging==26.2
+propcache==0.5.2
+protobuf==7.35.1
 pyparsing==3.3.2
 pyRdfa3==3.6.5
-pytz==2025.2
+pytz==2026.3.post1
 PyYAML==6.0.3
 rdflib==7.6.0
-requests==2.32.5
+requests==2.34.2
 six==1.17.0
-smmap==5.0.2
-soupsieve==2.8.3
-typing_extensions==4.15.0
-urllib3==2.6.3
-w3lib==2.4.0
+smmap==5.0.3
+soupsieve==2.9.1
+typing_extensions==4.16.0
+urllib3==2.7.0
+w3lib==2.4.1
 webencodings==0.5.1
-wrapt==1.17.3
-yarl==1.22.0
-zipp==3.23.0
+wrapt==2.2.2
+yarl==1.24.5
+zipp==4.1.0