diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f39307b..9cd27ff 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 # This Dockerfile is used to build the APSVIZ-Supervisor image
 
-FROM python:3.12.6-slim
+FROM python:3.12.7-slim
 
 # update the image base
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 876c32f..3173757 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ A Workflow manager that creates and monitors K8s jobs for each data processing c
 [![GPLv3 License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPL%20v3-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/)
 [![RENCI License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-RENCI-blue.svg)](https://www.renci.org/)
 #### Components and versions...
-[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-3.12.6-orange)](https://github.com/python/cpython)
+[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-3.12.7-orange)](https://github.com/python/cpython)
 [![Linting Pylint](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pylint-%203.3.1-yellow)](https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint)
 [![Pytest](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pytest-%208.3.3-blue)](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest)
 #### Build status...
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6144f9a..853ba0b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
 
 kubernetes==28.1.0
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
-slack-sdk==3.33.1
+slack-sdk==3.33.3
 pylint==3.3.1
 pytest==8.3.3
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