diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index 5d0867b..da18e09 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'temurin'
-          java-version: '8'
+          java-version: '21'
           server-id: 'central' # This is the id used in the settings.xml file to identify the repository
           server-username: MAVEN_USERNAME
           server-password: MAVEN_PASSWORD
diff --git a/.github/workflows/java-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/java-ci.yml
index aed875e..7730241 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/java-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/java-ci.yml
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ jobs:
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Set up JDK 8
+      - name: Set up JDK 21
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
-          java-version: '8'
+          java-version: '21'
           distribution: 'adopt'
       - name: Build and install / test NSTSuite with Maven
         run: mvn -U -e clean install -Dgpg.skip=true
diff --git a/NST/pom.xml b/NST/pom.xml
index a77517e..5c20962 100644
--- a/NST/pom.xml
+++ b/NST/pom.xml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
 				<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-				<version>0.8.2</version>
+				<version>0.8.12</version>
 				<executions>
 					<execution>
 						<goals>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5a04dcd..ef189f7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 	</licenses>
 
 	<properties>
-		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
-		<kotlin.version>2.1.0</kotlin.version>
+		<java.version>21</java.version>
+		<kotlin.version>2.2.10</kotlin.version>
 		<maven.compiler.version>1.8</maven.compiler.version>
 		<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
 		<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 		<maven.compiler.plugin.version>3.6.0</maven.compiler.plugin.version>
 		<maven.surefire.plugin.version>2.9</maven.surefire.plugin.version>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-		<nstest.version>1.3.6</nstest.version>
+		<nstest.version>2.0.0</nstest.version>
 		<testng.version>7.5</testng.version>
 		<maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
 	</properties>
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
-			<version>1.3.1</version>
+			<version>1.10.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
 			<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-			<version>2.8.9</version>
+			<version>2.13.1</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.atlassian.oai</groupId>
-			<artifactId>swagger-request-validator-core</artifactId>
-			<version>2.45.1</version>
+			<artifactId>openapi-request-validator-core</artifactId>
+			<version>3.0.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.ebay.nst</groupId>
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
 			<artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-			<version>2.9.0</version>
+			<version>2.10.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-			<version>3.12.0</version>
+			<version>3.18.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.reflections</groupId>
@@ -136,13 +136,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
 			<artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-			<version>3.8.0</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-			<artifactId>mockito-inline</artifactId>
-			<version>2.13.0</version>
+			<version>5.11.0</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>