diff --git a/src/frauddetectionservice/build.gradle.kts b/src/frauddetectionservice/build.gradle.kts
index 1819c7b..c7cd700 100644
--- a/src/frauddetectionservice/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/src/frauddetectionservice/build.gradle.kts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile
 import com.google.protobuf.gradle.*
 
 plugins {
-    kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.20"
+    kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.25"
     application
     id("java")
     id("idea")
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ group = "io.opentelemetry"
 version = "1.0"
 
 
-val grpcVersion = "1.59.0"
-val protobufVersion = "3.25.0"
+val grpcVersion = "1.69.0"
+val protobufVersion = "3.25.5"
 
 
 repositories {
@@ -30,20 +30,20 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:${protobufVersion}")
     testImplementation(kotlin("test"))
     implementation(kotlin("script-runtime"))
-    implementation("org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:3.6.0")
-    implementation("com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-common-protos:2.28.0")
+    implementation("org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:3.9.0")
+    implementation("com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-common-protos:2.50.0")
     implementation("io.grpc:grpc-protobuf:${grpcVersion}")
     implementation("io.grpc:grpc-stub:${grpcVersion}")
     implementation("io.grpc:grpc-netty:${grpcVersion}")
     implementation("io.grpc:grpc-services:${grpcVersion}")
-    implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api:1.31.0")
-    implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-sdk:1.31.0")
+    implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api:1.45.0")
+    implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-sdk:1.45.0")
     implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-extension-annotations:1.18.0")
-    implementation("org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.21.1")
-    implementation("org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.9")
+    implementation("org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.24.3")
+    implementation("org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.16")
     implementation("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlin:${protobufVersion}")
-    implementation("dev.openfeature:sdk:1.7.4")
-    implementation("dev.openfeature.contrib.providers:flagd:0.7.0")
+    implementation("dev.openfeature:sdk:1.13.0")
+    implementation("dev.openfeature.contrib.providers:flagd:0.10.2")
 
     if (JavaVersion.current().isJava9Compatible) {
         // Workaround for @javax.annotation.Generated
diff --git a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 033e24c..a4b76b9 100644
Binary files a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 3fa8f86..e2847c8 100644
--- a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew
index fcb6fca..f5feea6 100755
--- a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew
+++ b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
 
 ##############################################################################
 #
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/platforms/jvm/plugins-application/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -83,7 +85,9 @@ done
 # This is normally unused
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd -P "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && printf '%s
+' "$PWD" ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -144,7 +148,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
@@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -201,11 +205,11 @@ fi
 # Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
diff --git a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew.bat b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew.bat
index 93e3f59..9d21a21 100644
--- a/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew.bat
+++ b/src/frauddetectionservice/gradlew.bat
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 @rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 @rem limitations under the License.
 @rem
+@rem SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+@rem
 
 @if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
@@ -43,11 +45,11 @@ set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
 if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
 
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
+echo. 1>&2
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. 1>&2
+echo. 1>&2
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
+echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 goto fail
 
@@ -57,11 +59,11 @@ set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
 
 if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
 
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
+echo. 1>&2
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME% 1>&2
+echo. 1>&2
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
+echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 goto fail