diff --git a/wise-webapp/pom.xml b/wise-webapp/pom.xml
index ddef5427..5fb3f150 100644
--- a/wise-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/wise-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>mysql</groupId>
             <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
-            <version>8.0.31</version>
+            <version>8.0.32</version>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.cache</groupId>
             <artifactId>cache-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0.0</version>
+            <version>1.1.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.ehcache</groupId>
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.19.0</version>
+            <version>2.20.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-validator/commons-validator -->
         <dependency>
@@ -239,13 +239,13 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
             <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6.1</version>
+            <version>2.7.1</version>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.13.4.2</version>
+            <version>2.14.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- This is required in case of Tomcat, do not remove -->
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.7.25</version>
+            <version>2.0.5</version>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -268,12 +268,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6</version>
+            <version>2.11.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>fluent-hc</artifactId>
-            <version>4.5.13</version>
+            <version>4.5.14</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     <profiles>
diff --git a/wise-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/app.properties b/wise-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/app.properties
index ed574965..aec7793d 100755
--- a/wise-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/app.properties
+++ b/wise-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/app.properties
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # MySQL 5.X configuration properties
 #database.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/wisemapping?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8
-#database.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
+#database.driver=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
 #database.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
 #database.username=wisemapping
 #database.password=password