diff --git a/.github/workflows/maven-and-docker.yml b/.github/workflows/maven-and-docker.yml
index 46cea61..bb02049 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/maven-and-docker.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/maven-and-docker.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up JDK 17
       uses: actions/setup-java@v3
       with:
-        java-version: '17'
+        java-version: '21'
         distribution: 'temurin'
         cache: maven
     - name: Build with Maven
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 54a1aaa..8279dea 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM eclipse-temurin:17-jre-jammy
+FROM eclipse-temurin:21-jre-jammy
 
 LABEL MAINTAINERS="Julian Uszkoreit <julian.uszkoreit@rub.de>"\
       description="Docker image for command line execution of PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms"
diff --git a/Dockerfile-dev b/Dockerfile-dev
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e37559..0000000
--- a/Dockerfile-dev
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# the building container
-FROM maven:3-eclipse-temurin-8 AS builder
-
-RUN mkdir -p /tmp/pia
-COPY . /tmp/pia/
-RUN mvn -f /tmp/pia/pom.xml -Dmaven.test.skip --settings /tmp/pia/.mvn/unblock-mirrors.xml package
-
-
-# start the real container
-FROM eclipse-temurin:8-jre-focal
-
-LABEL MAINTAINERS="Julian Uszkoreit <julian.uszkoreit@rub.de>"\
-      description="Docker image for command line execution of PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms"
-
-# prepare zip and wget
-RUN apt-get update; \
-    apt-get install -y unzip wget; \
-    apt-get clean
-
-#preparing directories
-RUN mkdir -p /data/in; mkdir -p /data/out; mkdir -p /opt/pia;
-
-# copy just build PIA zip and uncompress
-COPY --from=builder /tmp/pia/target/pia*.zip /opt/pia/pia.zip
-RUN cd /opt/pia; \
-    unzip pia.zip; \
-    rm pia.zip; \
-    mv pia*.jar pia.jar;
-
-# cleanup
-RUN apt-get remove -y unzip wget;
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["java", "-jar", "/opt/pia/pia.jar"]
-CMD ["--help"]
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0ac92d7..004ab1e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>de.mpc.pia</groupId>
 	<artifactId>pia</artifactId>
-	<version>1.4.9</version>
+	<version>1.4.10</version>
 	<name>PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms</name>
 	<url>https://github.com/mpc-bioinformatics/pia</url>
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 		<xxindex.version>0.23</xxindex.version>
 		<mascotdatfile.version>3.6.1</mascotdatfile.version>
 		<xtandem-parser.version>1.13.0</xtandem-parser.version>
-		<compomics-utilities.version>5.0.41</compomics-utilities.version>
+		<compomics-utilities.version>5.1.5</compomics-utilities.version>
 		<biojava-ontology.version>7.0.2</biojava-ontology.version>
 		<gson.version>2.10.1</gson.version>
 		<picocli.version>4.7.5</picocli.version>
@@ -59,9 +59,10 @@
 		<xercesImpl.version>2.12.2</xercesImpl.version>
 		
 		<!-- override dependencies from some packages to avoid vulnarabilities  -->
-		<logback.version>1.4.13</logback.version>
+		<logback.version>1.4.14</logback.version>
 		<jackson-annotations.version>2.16.0</jackson-annotations.version>
 		<poi.version>5.2.5</poi.version>
+		<guava.version>32.1.3-jre</guava.version>
 
 		<!-- these are "internal" dependencies, the jar files are delivered together with the source -->
 		<BaseLib.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</BaseLib.version>
@@ -291,6 +292,11 @@
 			<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
 			<version>${jackson-annotations.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+			<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+			<version>${guava.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
 	<build>
@@ -307,7 +313,7 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>3.11.0</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<release>17</release>
+					<release>21</release>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			
@@ -356,7 +362,7 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
 				<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-				<version>0.8.8</version>
+				<version>0.8.11</version>
 				<executions>
 					<execution>
 						<goals>
@@ -376,7 +382,7 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-				<version>3.1.2</version>
+				<version>3.2.2</version>
 				<configuration>
 					<argLine>${argLine} -Xmx2560m</argLine>
 				</configuration>