diff --git a/inception/inception-io-html/src/test/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/io/html/dkprocore/HtmlDocumentReaderTest.java b/inception/inception-io-html/src/test/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/io/html/dkprocore/HtmlDocumentReaderTest.java
index c202d6c3803..6cb03794996 100644
--- a/inception/inception-io-html/src/test/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/io/html/dkprocore/HtmlDocumentReaderTest.java
+++ b/inception/inception-io-html/src/test/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/io/html/dkprocore/HtmlDocumentReaderTest.java
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@
 import org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas;
 import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLAssert;
 import org.dkpro.core.io.xmi.XmiWriter;
-import org.dkpro.core.testing.DkproTestContext;
 import org.dkpro.core.testing.TestOptions;
-import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
@@ -153,7 +151,4 @@ private void assertXmlEquals(File expected, File actual)
             throw new RuntimeException(e);
         }
     }
-
-    @Rule
-    public DkproTestContext testContext = new DkproTestContext();
 }
diff --git a/inception/pom.xml b/inception/pom.xml
index de7031750d0..baae179b679 100644
--- a/inception/pom.xml
+++ b/inception/pom.xml
@@ -61,15 +61,15 @@
     <dkpro.core.testCachePath>${session.executionRootDirectory}/cache/dkpro-core-datasets</dkpro.core.testCachePath>
     <excludedTestCategories>slow</excludedTestCategories>
 
-    <junit-jupiter.version>5.9.2</junit-jupiter.version>
-    <junit-platform.version>1.9.2</junit-platform.version>
+    <junit-jupiter.version>5.9.3</junit-jupiter.version>
+    <junit-platform.version>1.9.3</junit-platform.version>
     <mockito.version>4.11.0</mockito.version>
     <assertj.version>3.24.2</assertj.version>
 
     <awaitility.version>4.2.0</awaitility.version>
     <xmlunit.version>1.6</xmlunit.version>
 
-    <dkpro.version>2.3.1</dkpro.version>
+    <dkpro.version>2.4.0</dkpro.version>
     <uima.version>3.4.1</uima.version>
     <uimafit.version>3.4.0</uimafit.version>
     <uima-json.version>0.5.0</uima-json.version>
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@
     <!-- * 1.3.5    depends on Lucene 8.10.1 -->
     <!--   2.x      depends on Lucene 9.x -->
 
-    <rdf4j.version>4.2.3</rdf4j.version> 
-    <!-- * 4.2.x depends on Lucene 8.5.1 -->
+    <rdf4j.version>4.3.2</rdf4j.version> 
+    <!-- * 4.3.x depends on Lucene 8.9.x -->
 
     <jena.version>4.6.1</jena.version>
     <!-- * 4.6.1    depends on Lucene 8.11.1 -->