diff --git a/backend/java/build.gradle b/backend/java/build.gradle
index c53059c..4a1ca74 100644
--- a/backend/java/build.gradle
+++ b/backend/java/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'application'
-    id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '8.7.0'
+    id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '8.8.0'
 }
 
 group = 'com.sumup.examples'
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ repositories {
 
 dependencies {
     implementation 'com.sumup:sumup-sdk:0.0.7'
-    implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.22.0'
+    implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.22.1'
 }
 
 application {
diff --git a/backend/java/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/backend/java/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index eb84db6..a9db115 100644
--- a/backend/java/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/backend/java/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500