diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 46aa61ac1..1e5839ec4 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ plugins {
   id 'signing'
   id 'pmd' // code check, working on source code
   id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '6.25.0' //code format
-  id 'com.github.spotbugs' version '6.0.18' // code check, working on byte code
+  id 'com.github.spotbugs' version '6.0.19' // code check, working on byte code
   id 'de.undercouch.download' version '5.6.0'
   id 'kr.motd.sphinx' version '2.10.1' // documentation generation
   id 'jacoco' // java code coverage plugin
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ext {
   javaVersion = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
   groovyVersion = "4.0"
   groovyBinaryVersion = "4.0.22"
-  testcontainersVersion = '1.19.8'
+  testcontainersVersion = '1.20.0'
 
   scriptsLocation = 'gradle' + File.separator + 'scripts' + File.separator //location of script plugins
 }
@@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ dependencies {
 
   // Databases
   implementation 'org.influxdb:influxdb-java:2.24'
-  implementation 'com.couchbase.client:java-client:3.7.0'
+  implementation 'com.couchbase.client:java-client:3.7.1'
   runtimeOnly 'org.postgresql:postgresql:42.7.3' // postgresql jdbc driver required during runtime
 
   implementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.16.1' // I/O functionalities
-  implementation 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.17.0' // needed by commons-compress
+  implementation 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.17.1' // needed by commons-compress
   implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.26.2' // I/O functionalities
 }
 
diff --git a/docs/readthedocs/requirements.txt b/docs/readthedocs/requirements.txt
index 143734da3..eb266a2b3 100644
--- a/docs/readthedocs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/readthedocs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 commonmark==0.9.1
 recommonmark==0.7.1
-Sphinx==7.3.7
+Sphinx==7.4.7
 sphinx-rtd-theme==2.0.0
 myst-parser==3.0.1
 markdown-it-py==3.0.0