diff --git a/inception/inception-app-webapp/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml b/inception/inception-app-webapp/src/main/resources/log4j2-spring.xml
similarity index 98%
rename from inception/inception-app-webapp/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
rename to inception/inception-app-webapp/src/main/resources/log4j2-spring.xml
index 3c8c3a5796c..41794ee3295 100644
--- a/inception/inception-app-webapp/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
+++ b/inception/inception-app-webapp/src/main/resources/log4j2-spring.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Configuration status="WARN" packages="de.tudarmstadt.ukp">
+<Configuration status="WARN">
   <properties>
     <SpringProfile name="!app &amp; !cli"> <!-- While booting before Spring is there-->
       <property name="pattern">%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %level{length=5} [%encode{$${ctx:username:-SYSTEM}}{CRLF}] %logger{1} - %encode{%msg}{CRLF}%n</property>
diff --git a/inception/inception-doc/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/admin-guide/logging.adoc b/inception/inception-doc/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/admin-guide/logging.adoc
index d7c99beda72..e81f1f2a4d7 100644
--- a/inception/inception-doc/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/admin-guide/logging.adoc
+++ b/inception/inception-doc/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/admin-guide/logging.adoc
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ logging.level.de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.security=TRACE
 == Custom logging
 
 A custom logging configuration can be specified when starting up {product-name} using the parameter
-`-Dlog4j.configurationFile=/path/to/your/log4.xml`. This should be a standard Log4J configuration file.
+`-Dlogging.config=/path/to/your/log4.xml`. This should be a standard Log4J2 configuration file.
 A good starting point is the default configuration used by {product-name} which can be found in link:https://github.com/inception-project/inception/blob/main/inception/inception-app-webapp/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml[our code repository].
 
 == Logging in JSON format
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ A good starting point is the default configuration used by {product-name} which
 If you would like to integrate the logging output of {product-name} with something like LogStash and
 Kibana, you may want log output to be in a properly interpretable JSON format, instead of the usual
 plain text format. {product-name} comes with several JSON configurations that are compatible with
-popular tools like LogStash and others. You can activate it by adding the following sections to a custom `log4j.xml` file in the `Appenders` sections and in the `Root` logger.
+popular tools like LogStash and others. You can activate it by adding the following sections to a custom `log4j2.xml` file in the `Appenders` sections and in the `Root` logger.
 
 [source,text]
 ----
diff --git a/inception/inception-ui-core/pom.xml b/inception/inception-ui-core/pom.xml
index 3090aaf8c3e..497218fd9e2 100644
--- a/inception/inception-ui-core/pom.xml
+++ b/inception/inception-ui-core/pom.xml
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-boot</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
 
     <!-- Spring security dependencies -->
     <dependency>
diff --git a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/VersionFooterItem.java b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/VersionFooterItem.java
index ac73bc827ff..4f9730d7ded 100644
--- a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/VersionFooterItem.java
+++ b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/VersionFooterItem.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
 
 @Order(FooterItem.ORDER_CENTER)
-@org.springframework.stereotype.Component
 public class VersionFooterItem
     implements FooterItem
 {
diff --git a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/WarningsFooterItem.java b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/WarningsFooterItem.java
index dcf95f280d6..924da7589f5 100644
--- a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/WarningsFooterItem.java
+++ b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/clarin/webanno/ui/core/footer/WarningsFooterItem.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
 
 @Order(FooterItem.ORDER_RIGHT)
-@org.springframework.stereotype.Component
 public class WarningsFooterItem
     implements FooterItem
 {
diff --git a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/about/AboutFooterItem.java b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/about/AboutFooterItem.java
index 8bd55d6f42c..84249f2d617 100644
--- a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/about/AboutFooterItem.java
+++ b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/about/AboutFooterItem.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.ui.core.footer.FooterItem;
 
 @Order(FooterItem.ORDER_RIGHT + 100)
-@org.springframework.stereotype.Component
 public class AboutFooterItem
     implements FooterItem
 {
diff --git a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/config/CoreUiAutoConfiguration.java b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/config/CoreUiAutoConfiguration.java
index 69fde80e2f1..ea006f2c222 100644
--- a/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/config/CoreUiAutoConfiguration.java
+++ b/inception/inception-ui-core/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/ui/core/config/CoreUiAutoConfiguration.java
@@ -17,12 +17,35 @@
  */
 package de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.ui.core.config;
 
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnMissingBean;
 import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 
+import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.ui.core.footer.VersionFooterItem;
+import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.ui.core.footer.WarningsFooterItem;
+import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.ui.core.about.AboutFooterItem;
+
 @Configuration
 @EnableConfigurationProperties(CspPropertiesImpl.class)
 public class CoreUiAutoConfiguration
 {
-    // No beans yet
+    @ConditionalOnMissingBean(value = VersionFooterItem.class)
+    @Bean
+    public VersionFooterItem versionFooterItem()
+    {
+        return new VersionFooterItem();
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public WarningsFooterItem warningsFooterItem()
+    {
+        return new WarningsFooterItem();
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public AboutFooterItem aboutFooterItem()
+    {
+        return new AboutFooterItem();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/inception/pom.xml b/inception/pom.xml
index d1c348a2eb8..2e4f344a1bd 100644
--- a/inception/pom.xml
+++ b/inception/pom.xml
@@ -420,6 +420,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
       <artifactId>okio-jvm</artifactId>
+      <version>${okio.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -1067,6 +1068,20 @@
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
+        <artifactId>okhttp-bom</artifactId>
+        <version>${okhttp.version}</version>
+        <type>pom</type>
+        <scope>import</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
+        <artifactId>okio-bom</artifactId>
+        <version>${okio.version}</version>
+        <type>pom</type>
+        <scope>import</scope>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
         <artifactId>junit-platform-suite-engine</artifactId>
@@ -1092,21 +1107,6 @@
         <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
         <version>${assertj.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
-        <artifactId>mockwebserver</artifactId>
-        <version>${okhttp.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
-        <artifactId>okio</artifactId>
-        <version>${okio.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
-        <artifactId>okio-jvm</artifactId>
-        <version>${okio.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>no.nav.security</groupId>
         <artifactId>mock-oauth2-server</artifactId>
@@ -1124,11 +1124,6 @@
         <artifactId>nimbus-jose-jwt</artifactId>
         <version>9.31</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
-        <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
-        <version>${okhttp.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.awaitility</groupId>
         <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
@@ -2451,6 +2446,11 @@
               <artifactId>hibernate-jpamodelgen</artifactId>
               <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
             </path>
+            <path>
+              <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+              <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+              <version>${log4j2.version}</version>
+            </path>
           </annotationProcessorPaths>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>