diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b93ca2cf..5ebfbe93 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.0</version>
+        <version>3.3.1</version>
     </parent>
     <properties>
-        <java.version>21</java.version>
+        <java.version>17</java.version>
         <cucumber-java.version>7.3.3</cucumber-java.version>
-        <spring-cloud.version>2025.0.0</spring-cloud.version>
+        <spring-cloud.version>2023.0.2</spring-cloud.version>
 
     </properties>
     <dependencies>
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <!-- @FeignClient -->
             <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
@@ -62,54 +61,56 @@
             <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
             <artifactId>flyway-core</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
-            <artifactId>flyway-database-postgresql</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- swagger/openapi3 -->
             <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
             <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui</artifactId>
-            <version>2.8.8</version>
+            <version>2.7.0-RC1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
             <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
-            <version>2.1.212</version>
+            <version>2.2.220</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
             <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
-            <version>${cucumber-java.version}</version>
+            <version>7.3.3</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
             <artifactId>cucumber-junit-platform-engine</artifactId>
-            <version>${cucumber-java.version}</version>
+            <version>7.3.3</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <!-- WARNING: requires the package of all the glue code (@Given, @When, @Then) classes
         to contain a class annotated with @CucumberContextConfiguration -->
-        <!--<dependency>
-            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
-            <artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
-            <version>${cucumber-java.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>-->
+         <!--<dependency>
+             <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
+             <artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
+             <version>${cucumber-java.version}</version>
+             <scope>test</scope>
+         </dependency>-->
 
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            <version>31.1-jre</version>
+            <version>32.0.1-jre</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.wiremock.integrations</groupId>
-            <artifactId>wiremock-spring-boot</artifactId>
-            <version>3.10.0</version>
+            <!-- @AutoConfigureWireMock -->
+            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-contract-stub-runner</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <!-- <dependency>
+             <groupId>com.github.tomakehurst</groupId>
+             <artifactId>wiremock-jre8-standalone</artifactId>
+             <version>4.3.0</version>
+             <scope>test</scope>
+         </dependency>-->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>
@@ -118,7 +119,6 @@
             <groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-kafka-test</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
@@ -134,13 +134,13 @@
             <!-- PDF generation -->
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
             <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
-            <version>5.2.2</version>
+            <version>5.2.5</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- PDF generation -->
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
             <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
-            <version>5.2.2</version>
+            <version>5.4.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
 
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
-            <version>1.15.2</version>
+            <version>1.16.1</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- 2) OR testcontainers: Playtika OSS libraries https://github.com/PlaytikaOSS/testcontainers-spring-boot -->
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.openapitools.openapidiff</groupId>
             <artifactId>openapi-diff-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.0.1</version>
+            <version>2.1.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
             <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
-            <version>42.3.3</version>
+            <version>42.3.9</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
@@ -204,20 +204,15 @@
             <artifactId>junit-platform-launcher</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <!--wraps your JDBC connection with a p6spy driver to log all sql-->
+            <!-- incompatible with p6spy-starter -->
             <groupId>com.github.gavlyukovskiy</groupId>
             <artifactId>p6spy-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
-            <version>1.10.0</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
+            <version>1.11.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.awaitility</groupId>
             <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -226,7 +221,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
                 <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
-                <version>${spring-cloud.version}</version>
+                <version>4.2.1</version>
                 <type>pom</type>
                 <scope>import</scope>
             </dependency>