diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 56c3dd5..7ec21de 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ buildscript {
 
 plugins {
     id 'application'
-    id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '8.4.0'
+    id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '8.6.0'
     id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.54.0'
     id 'com.github.spotbugs' version '6.5.5'
-    id 'com.gradleup.shadow' version '9.4.1'
+    id 'com.gradleup.shadow' version '9.4.2'
 }
 
 application {
@@ -22,14 +22,12 @@ dependencies {
 //    testImplementation('org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter')
 //    testRuntimeOnly('org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher')
 
-    implementation(platform('org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-bom:3.0.0-beta2'))
-    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:3.0.0-beta2'
-    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:3.0.0-beta2'
-    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-plugins:3.0.0-beta2'
-    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-config-properties:3.0.0-beta2'
+    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:3.0.0-beta3'
+    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-plugins:3.0.0-beta3'
+    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-config-properties:3.0.0-beta3'
 
     implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.20.0'
-    implementation 'org.json:json:20251224'
+    implementation 'org.json:json:20260522'
 }
 
 //test {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index df6a6ad..26b65f4 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-9.6.0-rc-1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500