diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 50b36a55a62da6a041267f98a42e1f1af884534f..bb9b23225f9b43b97a7c0e4f85a019a6d0788131 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@
         <build.helper.maven.version>1.9.1</build.helper.maven.version>
         <commons-beanutils.version>1.9.4</commons-beanutils.version>
         <commons-collections.version>3.2.2</commons-collections.version>
-        <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>
+        <commons-io.version>2.13.0</commons-io.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.12.0</commons-lang3.version>
         <commons-fileupload.version>1.5</commons-fileupload.version>
-        <commons-net.version>3.8.0</commons-net.version>
+        <commons-net.version>3.9.0</commons-net.version>
         <commons-validator.version>1.7</commons-validator.version>
         <cxf-xjc-runtime.version>3.3.2</cxf-xjc-runtime.version>
         <cxf.version>3.5.6</cxf.version>
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@
         <spring-modules-jakarta-commons.version>0.8</spring-modules-jakarta-commons.version>
         <spring-boot.version>2.7.12</spring-boot.version>
         <spring-boot.tomcat.version>9.0.75</spring-boot.tomcat.version>
-        <spring.security.version>5.8.3</spring.security.version>
-        <spring.version>5.3.27</spring.version>
+        <spring.security.version>5.8.4</spring.security.version>
+        <spring.version>5.3.28</spring.version>
         <xmlunit.version>2.9.0</xmlunit.version>
 
         <!-- plugins -->
@@ -771,8 +771,9 @@
                 <artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.5.3</version>
+                <version>3.0.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <arguments>-DusePreInstallNpm -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests=true
                         -Dmaven.test.skip=true
diff --git a/smp-webapp/pom.xml b/smp-webapp/pom.xml
index 9e092a6b70ddd7d9b6287ca9896ffdcb802f19ed..6b53438b66bc6cf028b0cc2e01d175c0f863ee05 100644
--- a/smp-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/smp-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -114,20 +114,9 @@
 
     <build>
         <testResources>
-            <testResource>
-                <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
-                <filtering>true</filtering>
-                <excludes>
-                    <exclude>**/*.jks</exclude>
-                </excludes>
-            </testResource>
             <testResource>
                 <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
                 <filtering>false</filtering>
-                <!-- With filtering=true Maven was introducing changes in keystore binary files [sic!] -->
-                <includes>
-                    <include>**/*.jks</include>
-                </includes>
             </testResource>
         </testResources>
         <resources>