diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 8aba4f7..6b7e572 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 # FastAPI and ASGI server
-fastapi==0.109.0
-uvicorn[standard]==0.27.0
-pydantic==2.5.3
-pydantic-settings==2.1.0
-email-validator==2.1.0
+fastapi==0.135.2
+uvicorn[standard]==0.42.0
+pydantic==2.12.5
+pydantic-settings==2.13.1
+email-validator==2.3.0
 
 # Database
-motor==3.3.2
-pymongo==4.6.1
+motor==3.7.1
+pymongo==4.16.0
 
 # S3/MinIO Storage
-miniopy-async==1.19
-minio==7.2.3
+miniopy-async==1.23.4
+minio==7.2.20
 
 # Authentication & Security
-PyJWT[crypto]==2.9.0
+PyJWT[crypto]==2.12.1
 passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
 bcrypt==4.0.1
-python-multipart==0.0.6
+python-multipart==0.0.22
 slowapi==0.1.9
 fastapi-csrf-protect==0.3.2
-bleach==6.1.0  # HTML sanitization to prevent XSS attacks
+bleach==6.3.0  # HTML sanitization to prevent XSS attacks
 
 # Redis
 redis==5.0.1
@@ -29,47 +29,47 @@ redis==5.0.1
 sse-starlette==2.0.0
 
 # Monitoring & Metrics
-prometheus-client==0.19.0
+prometheus-client==0.24.1
 prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator==6.1.0
 sentry-sdk[fastapi,celery]==1.40.0  # Error tracking and performance monitoring
 posthog==3.1.0  # Product analytics and feature flags
 
 # Async task queue
-celery==5.3.4
+celery==5.6.3
 
 # Document parsing
-python-docx==1.1.0
+python-docx==1.2.0
 pypdf==3.17.4
 pandas==2.1.4
 chardet==5.2.0
-reportlab==4.0.7
-openpyxl==3.1.2  # Excel template generation with data validation
+reportlab==4.4.10
+openpyxl==3.1.5  # Excel template generation with data validation
 
 # AI/LLM integration (Release 0.5, expanded in Release 3.0)
 openai==1.12.0
-anthropic==0.39.0  # Claude 3.5 Sonnet support
+anthropic==0.86.0  # Claude 3.5 Sonnet support
 pinecone-client==2.2.4  # Vector database for semantic search (Phase 7)
 numpy==1.24.3  # Required for vector operations
-google-generativeai==0.8.3  # Gemini 1.5 Pro support
-tiktoken==0.5.2
+google-generativeai==0.8.6  # Gemini 1.5 Pro support
+tiktoken==0.12.0
 
 # Content Quality (Release 0.6)
 sentence-transformers>=2.3.0
-scikit-learn==1.3.2
+scikit-learn==1.8.0
 
 # Export functionality (Release 0.7)
-PyYAML==6.0.1
-Markdown==3.5.1
+PyYAML==6.0.3
+Markdown==3.10.2
 
 # Testing
 pytest==7.4.3
 pytest-asyncio==0.23.3
-pytest-xdist==3.5.0
-httpx==0.26.0
+pytest-xdist==3.8.0
+httpx==0.28.1
 
 # Code quality
-ruff==0.1.11
+ruff==0.15.8
 black==23.12.1
 
 # Utilities
-python-dotenv==1.0.0
+python-dotenv==1.2.2