diff --git a/examples/bld/src/bld/java/com/example/ReadingTimeExampleBuild.java b/examples/bld/src/bld/java/com/example/ReadingTimeExampleBuild.java
index a992053..279f859 100644
--- a/examples/bld/src/bld/java/com/example/ReadingTimeExampleBuild.java
+++ b/examples/bld/src/bld/java/com/example/ReadingTimeExampleBuild.java
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ public class ReadingTimeExampleBuild extends BaseProject {
         repositories = List.of(MAVEN_LOCAL, MAVEN_CENTRAL, SONATYPE_SNAPSHOTS_LEGACY);
 
         scope(compile)
-                .include(dependency("net.thauvin.erik", "readingtime", version(0, 9, 2)));
+                .include(dependency("net.thauvin.erik", "readingtime", version(0, 9, 3, "SNAPSHOT")));
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
diff --git a/examples/gradle/build.gradle.kts b/examples/gradle/build.gradle.kts
index 9e3f3c0..637f809 100644
--- a/examples/gradle/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/examples/gradle/build.gradle.kts
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile
 
 plugins {
     id("application")
-    id("com.github.ben-manes.versions") version "0.50.0"
-    kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.21"
+    id("com.github.ben-manes.versions") version "0.51.0"
+    kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.22"
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/examples/gradle/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/examples/gradle/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 3fa8f86..1af9e09 100644
--- a/examples/gradle/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/examples/gradle/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-8.5-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 590ed05..0702f28 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>net.thauvin.erik</groupId>
   <artifactId>readingtime</artifactId>
-  <version>0.9.2</version>
+  <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>readingtime</name>
   <description>Estimated Reading Time for Blog Posts, Articles, etc.</description>
   <url>https://github.com/ethauvin/readingtime</url>
@@ -18,25 +18,13 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
       <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib</artifactId>
-      <version>1.9.21</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
-      <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib-jdk7</artifactId>
-      <version>1.9.21</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
-      <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib-jdk8</artifactId>
-      <version>1.9.21</version>
+      <version>1.9.22</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
       <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
-      <version>1.16.2</version>
+      <version>1.17.2</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
diff --git a/src/bld/java/net/thauvin/erik/ReadingTimeBuild.java b/src/bld/java/net/thauvin/erik/ReadingTimeBuild.java
index 3a9b960..1a79c82 100644
--- a/src/bld/java/net/thauvin/erik/ReadingTimeBuild.java
+++ b/src/bld/java/net/thauvin/erik/ReadingTimeBuild.java
@@ -64,14 +64,12 @@ public class ReadingTimeBuild extends Project {
         autoDownloadPurge = true;
         repositories = List.of(MAVEN_LOCAL, MAVEN_CENTRAL);
 
-        final var kotlin = version(1, 9, 21);
+        final var kotlin = version(1, 9, 22);
         scope(compile)
                 .include(dependency("org.jetbrains.kotlin", "kotlin-stdlib", kotlin))
-                .include(dependency("org.jetbrains.kotlin", "kotlin-stdlib-jdk7", kotlin))
-                .include(dependency("org.jetbrains.kotlin", "kotlin-stdlib-jdk8", kotlin))
-                .include(dependency("org.jsoup", "jsoup", version(1, 16, 2)));
+                .include(dependency("org.jsoup", "jsoup", version(1, 17, 2)));
         scope(test)
-                .include(dependency("org.jetbrains.kotlin", "kotlin-test-junit5", version(1, 9, 20)))
+                .include(dependency("org.jetbrains.kotlin", "kotlin-test-junit5", kotlin))
                 .include(dependency("org.junit.jupiter", "junit-jupiter", version(5, 10, 1)))
                 .include(dependency("org.junit.platform", "junit-platform-console-standalone", version(1, 10, 1)));