diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 540d704..5ef117e 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.7.18'
-    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.5'
+    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.6'
     id 'java'
 }
 
@@ -43,18 +43,18 @@ dependencies {
     //implementation group: 'jakarta.validation', name: 'jakarta.validation-api', version: '3.0.2'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.guava/guava
-    implementation group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '33.2.1-jre'
+    implementation group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '33.3.1-jre'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3
-    implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.14.0'
+    implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.17.0'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-compress
-    implementation("org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.26.2") {
+    implementation("org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.27.1") {
         exclude group: 'com.github.luben', module: 'zstd-jni'
     }
-    implementation 'com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.6-3'  // Even though this is part of the above dependency, the Apache commons rarely updates it, while the zstd team makes improvements very often.
+    implementation 'com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.6-6'  // Even though this is part of the above dependency, the Apache commons rarely updates it, while the zstd team makes improvements very often.
 
-    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.5.11'
+    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.5.12'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.cloudera.impala/jdbc
     implementation("com.cloudera.impala:jdbc:2.5.31") {
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ dependencies {
     }
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.parquet/parquet-avro
-    implementation('org.apache.parquet:parquet-avro:1.14.1')
+    implementation('org.apache.parquet:parquet-avro:1.14.2')
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-common
     implementation("org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common:$hadoopVersion") {
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.11.0'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.micrometer/micrometer-registry-prometheus
-    runtimeOnly 'io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus:1.13.1'
+    runtimeOnly 'io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus:1.13.4'
 
     testImplementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-test'
     testImplementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test"
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index a441313..df97d72 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.8-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10.2-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/controllers/ShutdownController.java b/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/controllers/ShutdownController.java
index 13ca982..5a63f6f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/controllers/ShutdownController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/controllers/ShutdownController.java
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ public class ShutdownController {
         }
 
         if ( ! remoteAddr.equals(workerInfo.getWorkerIP()) ) {
-            logger.error(initMsg + " The request came from an IP different from the one this worker was registered with: " + workerInfo.getWorkerIP());
+            logger.error(initMsg + " The request came from an IP different from the one, this worker was registered with: " + workerInfo.getWorkerIP());
             return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.FORBIDDEN).build();
         }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java b/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java
index aa09410..8654cb7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ public class ParquetFileUtils {
                 logger.error("Failed to drop the \"" + tableName + "_tmp\" table!", e1);
                 // TODO - Should we shutdown the service? It is highly unlikely that anyone will observe this error live (and act immediately)..!
             }
-            return errorMsg;    // We return only the initial error to the Worker, which is easily distinguished indie the "merge-queries".
+            return errorMsg;    // We return only the initial error to the Worker, which is easily distinguished inside the "merge-queries".
         }
 
         // Drop the initial table.