diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yml b/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yml
index 5c72b452..38e91696 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       matrix_supportedSplunk: ${{ steps.matrix.outputs.supportedSplunk }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - id: matrix
         uses: splunk/addonfactory-test-matrix-action@v1
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
     continue-on-error: true
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: run fossa anlyze and create report
         run: |
           curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fossas/fossa-cli/master/install-latest.sh | bash
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ jobs:
   compliance-copyrights:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: apache/skywalking-eyes@v0.4.0
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: apache/skywalking-eyes@v0.5.0
   
   pre-commit:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: "3.7"
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ jobs:
     name: security-sast-semgrep
     if: github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]'
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - id: semgrep
         uses: returntocorp/semgrep-action@v1
         with:
@@ -77,19 +77,19 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: false
           fetch-depth: "0"
       - name: Trufflehog Actions Scan
-        uses: edplato/trufflehog-actions-scan@v0.9j-beta
+        uses: edplato/trufflehog-actions-scan@v0.9-beta
         with:
           scanArguments: "--max_dept 50 -x .github/workflows/exclude-patterns.txt"
 
   test-splunk-unit:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: true
       - name: Install dependencies
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Test Docs
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: true
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         splunk: ${{ fromJson(needs.meta.outputs.matrix_supportedSplunk) }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: true
       - name: Setup for testing
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ jobs:
           "splunk_app_req_broken",
         ]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: true
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ jobs:
       - test-splunk-matrix
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           # Very Important semantic-release won't trigger a tagged
           # build if this is not set false
diff --git a/Dockerfile.uf b/Dockerfile.uf
index b4a31ef0..f8c703a2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.uf
+++ b/Dockerfile.uf
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #
 # TODO: go back to latest version when fixed
 ARG SPLUNK_VERSION=8.2.6
-FROM splunk/universalforwarder:8.2.6
+FROM splunk/universalforwarder:9.0.5
 ARG SPLUNK_VERSION=8.2.6
 ARG SPLUNK_APP_ID=TA_UNKNOWN
 ARG SPLUNK_APP_PACKAGE=package
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a35cd3cb..806e92c5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ pytest-xdist = ">=2.3.0"
 filelock = "^3.0"
 pytest-ordering = "~0.6"
 lovely-pytest-docker = { version="^0", optional = true }
-junitparser = "^2.2.0"
+junitparser = "^3.0.0"
 addonfactory-splunk-conf-parser-lib = "^0.3.3"
 defusedxml = "^0.7.1"
-Faker = ">=13.12,<19.0.0"
+Faker = ">=19.4,<19.5"
 xmltodict = "^0.13.0"
-xmlschema = "^1.11.3"
+xmlschema = "^2.0.0"
 splunksplwrapper = "^1.1.1"
 urllib3 = "<2"
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ docker = ['lovely-pytest-docker']
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 lovely-pytest-docker = "~0.3.0"
-pytest-cov = "^3.0.0"
+pytest-cov = "^4.0.0"
 requests-mock = "^1.8.0"
 freezegun = "^1.2.1"
 pytz = "^2022.1"
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ pytz = "^2022.1"
 optional = true
 
 [tool.poetry.group.docs.dependencies]
-jinja2 = "3.0.3"
-sphinx-rtd-theme = "1.1.1"
+jinja2 = "3.1.2"
+sphinx-rtd-theme = "1.3.0"
 sphinx-panels = "0.6.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.plugins]