diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 1347438..03f3d34 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 # create a new non-root user and switch to it
-RUN useradd --create-home -u 1000 nru
+RUN useradd --create-home -u 999 nru
 USER nru
 
 # Create the directory for the code and cd to it
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d2b449c..a3b5e23 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ A Web application/services to view/modify the [iRODS-K8s Supervisor](https://git
 #### Components and versions...
 [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-3.12.2-orange)](https://github.com/python/cpython)
 [![Linting Pylint](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pylint-%203.1.0-yellow)](https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint)
-[![Pytest](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pytest-%208.0.2-blue)](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest)
+[![Pytest](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pytest-%208.1.1-blue)](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest)
 #### Build status...
 [![PyLint the codebase](https://github.com/irods-contrib/iRODS-K8s-Settings/actions/workflows/pylint.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/irods-contrib/iRODS-K8s-Settings/actions/workflows/pylint.yml)
 [![Build and push the Docker image](https://github.com/irods-contrib/iRODS-K8s-Settings/actions/workflows/image-push.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/irods-contrib/iRODS-K8s-Settings/actions/workflows/image-push.yml)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ff18c77..107a352 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD 3-Clause
 
-pydantic==2.6.2
+pydantic==2.6.4
 fastapi==0.110.0
-uvicorn==0.27.1
+uvicorn==0.28.0
 pyyaml==6.0.1
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
 pylint==3.1.0
 pyjwt==2.8.0
-pytest==8.0.2
+pytest==8.1.1
 requests==2.31.0
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