diff --git a/.github/workflows/verify.yaml b/.github/workflows/verify.yaml
index c8c0c7eb..f7429b9c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/verify.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/verify.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ on:
   workflow_call:
   workflow_dispatch:
   push:
+    branches: [ main, release/*, bugfix/* ]
   pull_request:
     branches: [ main, release/*, bugfix/* ]
     paths-ignore:
diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES
index ea2a1e05..80aa8c4b 100644
--- a/DEPENDENCIES
+++ b/DEPENDENCIES
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ maven/mavencentral/com.google.errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.18.0, Apache-
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.22.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #10661
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.23.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #11083
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.26.1, Apache-2.0, approved, #13657
+maven/mavencentral/com.google.errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.28.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #15107
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.flatbuffers/flatbuffers-java/23.5.26, Apache-2.0, approved, #12857
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/failureaccess/1.0.2, Apache-2.0, approved, CQ22654
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/guava/29.0-android, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/guava/32.0.0-android, Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/guava/32.0.1-jre, Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0 AND CC-PDDC, approved, #8772
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/guava/33.0.0-jre, Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0, approved, #12173
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/guava/33.1.0-jre, Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0, approved, #13675
-maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/guava/33.2.0-jre, Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0 AND (Apache-2.0 AND CC-PDDC), approved, #14607
+maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/guava/33.3.0-jre, Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0 AND (Apache-2.0 AND CC-PDDC) AND (Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0), approved, #15952
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.guava/listenablefuture/9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava, Apache-2.0, approved, CQ22657
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.http-client/google-http-client-apache-v2/1.44.1, Apache-2.0, approved, #13430
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.http-client/google-http-client-appengine/1.44.1, Apache-2.0, approved, #13425
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ maven/mavencentral/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java-util/3.25.3, BSD-3-Clause,
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java/3.25.3, BSD-3-Clause, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/com.google.re2j/re2j/1.7, BSD-3-Clause, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/com.nimbusds/nimbus-jose-jwt/9.40, Apache-2.0, approved, #15156
-maven/mavencentral/com.puppycrawl.tools/checkstyle/10.17.0, LGPL-2.1-or-later AND (Apache-2.0 AND LGPL-2.1-or-later) AND Apache-2.0, approved, #15077
+maven/mavencentral/com.puppycrawl.tools/checkstyle/10.18.0, LGPL-2.1-or-later, restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/com.squareup.okhttp3/okhttp-dnsoverhttps/4.12.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #11159
 maven/mavencentral/com.squareup.okhttp3/okhttp/4.12.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #15227
 maven/mavencentral/com.squareup.okhttp3/okhttp/4.9.3, Apache-2.0 AND MPL-2.0, approved, #3225
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ maven/mavencentral/io.rest-assured/rest-assured-common/5.5.0, Apache-2.0, approv
 maven/mavencentral/io.rest-assured/rest-assured/5.5.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #15676
 maven/mavencentral/io.rest-assured/xml-path/5.5.0, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/io.swagger.core.v3/swagger-annotations-jakarta/2.2.22, Apache-2.0, approved, #5947
+maven/mavencentral/io.swagger.core.v3/swagger-annotations-jakarta/2.2.23, Apache-2.0, approved, #5947
 maven/mavencentral/io.swagger.core.v3/swagger-core-jakarta/2.2.22, Apache-2.0, approved, #5929
 maven/mavencentral/io.swagger.core.v3/swagger-integration-jakarta/2.2.22, Apache-2.0, approved, #11475
 maven/mavencentral/io.swagger.core.v3/swagger-jaxrs2-jakarta/2.2.22, Apache-2.0, approved, #11477
@@ -172,15 +174,15 @@ maven/mavencentral/jakarta.xml.bind/jakarta.xml.bind-api/4.0.2, BSD-3-Clause, ap
 maven/mavencentral/javax.annotation/javax.annotation-api/1.3.2, CDDL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0, approved, CQ16910
 maven/mavencentral/junit/junit/4.13.2, EPL-2.0, approved, CQ23636
 maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy-agent/1.14.1, Apache-2.0, approved, #7164
-maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy-agent/1.14.15, Apache-2.0, approved, #7164
+maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy-agent/1.15.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #16009
 maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy/1.12.21, Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause, approved, #1811
 maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy/1.14.1, Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause, approved, #7163
-maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy/1.14.15, Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause, approved, #7163
 maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy/1.14.18, Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause, approved, #7163
 maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy/1.14.9, Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause, approved, #7163
+maven/mavencentral/net.bytebuddy/byte-buddy/1.15.0, Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause, approved, #16008
 maven/mavencentral/net.java.dev.jna/jna/5.13.0, Apache-2.0 AND LGPL-2.1-or-later, approved, #15196
-maven/mavencentral/net.sf.saxon/Saxon-HE/12.4, MPL-2.0 AND (MPL-2.0 AND Apache-2.0) AND (MPL-2.0 AND LicenseRef-X11-style) AND MPL-1.0 AND W3C, approved, #12716
-maven/mavencentral/org.antlr/antlr4-runtime/4.13.1, BSD-3-Clause, approved, #10767
+maven/mavencentral/net.sf.saxon/Saxon-HE/12.5, NOASSERTION, restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/org.antlr/antlr4-runtime/4.13.2, BSD-3-Clause, approved, #10767
 maven/mavencentral/org.apache.arrow/arrow-format/15.0.2, Apache-2.0, approved, #12854
 maven/mavencentral/org.apache.arrow/arrow-memory-core/15.0.2, Apache-2.0, approved, #12855
 maven/mavencentral/org.apache.arrow/arrow-memory-netty/15.0.2, Apache-2.0, approved, #12853
@@ -219,7 +221,7 @@ maven/mavencentral/org.bouncycastle/bcutil-jdk18on/1.78.1, MIT, approved, #14435
 maven/mavencentral/org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup/tagsoup/1.2.1, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/org.checkerframework/checker-compat-qual/2.5.6, GPL-2.0-only with Classpath-Exception-2.0, approved, #11598
 maven/mavencentral/org.checkerframework/checker-qual/3.42.0, MIT, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/org.checkerframework/checker-qual/3.43.0, MIT, approved, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/org.checkerframework/checker-qual/3.46.0, MIT, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/org.codehaus.mojo/animal-sniffer-annotations/1.23, MIT, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/org.codehaus.plexus/plexus-classworlds/2.6.0, Apache-2.0 AND Plexus, approved, CQ22821
 maven/mavencentral/org.codehaus.plexus/plexus-component-annotations/2.1.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #809
@@ -393,7 +395,7 @@ maven/mavencentral/org.junit.platform/junit-platform-commons/1.11.0, EPL-2.0, ap
 maven/mavencentral/org.junit.platform/junit-platform-engine/1.11.0, EPL-2.0, approved, #15932
 maven/mavencentral/org.junit/junit-bom/5.11.0, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/org.jvnet.mimepull/mimepull/1.9.15, CDDL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0, approved, CQ21484
-maven/mavencentral/org.mockito/mockito-core/5.12.0, MIT AND (Apache-2.0 AND MIT) AND Apache-2.0, approved, #14678
+maven/mavencentral/org.mockito/mockito-core/5.13.0, MIT, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/org.mockito/mockito-core/5.2.0, MIT AND (Apache-2.0 AND MIT) AND Apache-2.0, approved, #7401
 maven/mavencentral/org.objenesis/objenesis/3.3, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/org.opentest4j/opentest4j/1.3.0, Apache-2.0, approved, #9713
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index c1962a79..d64cd491 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 3499ded5..9355b415 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index aeb74cbb..1aa94a42 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ done
 # This is normally unused
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -130,10 +131,13 @@ 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.
@@ -141,7 +145,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
@@ -149,7 +153,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -198,11 +202,11 @@ fi
 # Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \