diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bfe4574..d76c526 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ Option 3 - run from IDE
 
 ## Run Tests
 
+## It uses TestContainers, which requires Docker to be installed locally.
+
 ##### Running full tests
 
 `./mvnw clean verify`
diff --git a/main-app/main-orm/pom.xml b/main-app/main-orm/pom.xml
index 896019b..204c7f4 100644
--- a/main-app/main-orm/pom.xml
+++ b/main-app/main-orm/pom.xml
@@ -102,11 +102,6 @@
 
                 </configuration>
                 <dependencies>
-                    <dependency>
-                        <groupId>org.liquibase.ext</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>liquibase-hibernate5</artifactId>
-                        <version>${liquibase.version}</version>
-                    </dependency>
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                         <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1631831..a7a49cd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>3.0.4</version>
+        <version>3.0.10</version>
+        <!-- can't use 3.1 because of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76490128/class-org-hibernate-mapping-basicvalue-cannot-be-cast-to-class-org-hibernate-map-->
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
 
@@ -30,25 +31,25 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
 
-        <spring-boot.version>3.0.4</spring-boot.version>
-        <spring-cloud.version>2022.0.1</spring-cloud.version>
+        <spring-boot.version>3.0.10</spring-boot.version>
+        <spring-cloud.version>2022.0.4</spring-cloud.version>
         <hibernate-types60.version>2.21.1</hibernate-types60.version>
-        <hibernate-hypersistence-utils.version>3.2.0</hibernate-hypersistence-utils.version>
+        <hibernate-hypersistence-utils.version>3.5.2</hibernate-hypersistence-utils.version>
         <datasource-proxy-sb-starter.version>1.9.0</datasource-proxy-sb-starter.version>
-        <springdoc-openapi-ui.version>2.0.2</springdoc-openapi-ui.version>
-        <mapstruct.version>1.5.3.Final</mapstruct.version>
+        <springdoc-openapi-ui.version>2.2.0</springdoc-openapi-ui.version>
+        <mapstruct.version>1.5.5.Final</mapstruct.version>
 
-        <selenide.version>6.12.0</selenide.version>
+        <selenide.version>6.17.2</selenide.version>
         <!-- selenide generally uses new selenium. Spring Boot Dep Mgmt still provides older version -->
-        <selenium.version>4.8.1</selenium.version>
+        <selenium.version>4.12.0</selenium.version>
         <!-- selenide + webdriver manager uses httpclient 5.2 -->
         <httpclient5.version>5.2.1</httpclient5.version>
 
-        <google-guava.version>31.1-jre</google-guava.version>
+        <google-guava.version>32.1.2-jre</google-guava.version>
         <wro4j.version>1.9.0</wro4j.version>
-        <archunit.version>1.0.1</archunit.version>
-        <testcontainers.version>1.17.6</testcontainers.version>
-        <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>
+        <archunit.version>1.1.0</archunit.version>
+        <testcontainers.version>1.19.0</testcontainers.version>
+        <commons-io.version>2.13.0</commons-io.version>
         <webjar-jquery.version>3.6.0</webjar-jquery.version>
         <webjar-bootstrap.version>5.0.1</webjar-bootstrap.version>
 
@@ -56,22 +57,22 @@
         <objenesis.version>3.3</objenesis.version>
 
         <!-- plugins -->
-        <sonar-maven-plugin.version>3.9.0.2155</sonar-maven-plugin.version>
-        <jacoco-maven-plugin.version>0.8.8</jacoco-maven-plugin.version>
-        <maven.checkstyle.plugin.version>3.1.1</maven.checkstyle.plugin.version>
-        <puppycrawl.checkstyle.version>10.8.0</puppycrawl.checkstyle.version>
+        <sonar-maven-plugin.version>3.9.1.2184</sonar-maven-plugin.version>
+        <jacoco-maven-plugin.version>0.8.10</jacoco-maven-plugin.version>
+        <maven.checkstyle.plugin.version>3.3.0</maven.checkstyle.plugin.version>
+        <puppycrawl.checkstyle.version>10.12.3</puppycrawl.checkstyle.version>
         <puppycrawl.checkstyle.config.file>src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml</puppycrawl.checkstyle.config.file>
-        <gmavenplus.version>2.1.0</gmavenplus.version>
-        <maven-surefire-plugin.version>3.0.0-M9</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
-        <maven-failsafe-plugin.version>3.0.0-M9</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
-        <google.error-prone.compiler.version>2.18.0</google.error-prone.compiler.version>
-        <modernizer-maven-plugin.version>2.5.0</modernizer-maven-plugin.version>
-        <spotbugs-maven-plugin.version>4.7.3.2</spotbugs-maven-plugin.version>
+        <gmavenplus.version>3.0.0</gmavenplus.version>
+        <maven-surefire-plugin.version>3.1.2</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+        <maven-failsafe-plugin.version>3.1.2</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
+        <google.error-prone.compiler.version>2.21.1</google.error-prone.compiler.version>
+        <modernizer-maven-plugin.version>2.6.0</modernizer-maven-plugin.version>
+        <spotbugs-maven-plugin.version>4.7.3.5</spotbugs-maven-plugin.version>
         <findsecbugs-plugin.version>1.12.0</findsecbugs-plugin.version>
-        <sb-contrib-plugin.version>7.4.7</sb-contrib-plugin.version>
-        <owasp-dependency-check-plugin.version>8.1.2</owasp-dependency-check-plugin.version>
+<!--        <sb-contrib-plugin.version>7.4.7</sb-contrib-plugin.version>-->
+<!--        <owasp-dependency-check-plugin.version>8.1.2</owasp-dependency-check-plugin.version>-->
         <pitest-maven-plugin.version>1.12.0</pitest-maven-plugin.version>
-        <pitest-junit5-plugin.version>1.1.2</pitest-junit5-plugin.version>
+        <pitest-junit5-plugin.version>1.2.0</pitest-junit5-plugin.version>
     </properties>
 
 
@@ -315,24 +316,24 @@
             </plugins>
         </pluginManagement>
     </build>
-    <repositories>
-        <repository>
-            <id>spring-milestones</id>
-            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
-            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
-            <snapshots>
-                <enabled>false</enabled>
-            </snapshots>
-        </repository>
-    </repositories>
-    <pluginRepositories>
-        <pluginRepository>
-            <id>spring-milestones</id>
-            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
-            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
-            <snapshots>
-                <enabled>false</enabled>
-            </snapshots>
-        </pluginRepository>
-    </pluginRepositories>
+<!--    <repositories>-->
+<!--        <repository>-->
+<!--            <id>spring-milestones</id>-->
+<!--            <name>Spring Milestones</name>-->
+<!--            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>-->
+<!--            <snapshots>-->
+<!--                <enabled>false</enabled>-->
+<!--            </snapshots>-->
+<!--        </repository>-->
+<!--    </repositories>-->
+<!--    <pluginRepositories>-->
+<!--        <pluginRepository>-->
+<!--            <id>spring-milestones</id>-->
+<!--            <name>Spring Milestones</name>-->
+<!--            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>-->
+<!--            <snapshots>-->
+<!--                <enabled>false</enabled>-->
+<!--            </snapshots>-->
+<!--        </pluginRepository>-->
+<!--    </pluginRepositories>-->
 </project>