diff --git a/backend/Directory.Packages.props b/backend/Directory.Packages.props
index a97e803..2a43928 100644
--- a/backend/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/backend/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   <ItemGroup Label="Application">
     <PackageVersion Include="FluentValidation" Version="12.1.1" />
     <PackageVersion Include="FluentValidation.DependencyInjectionExtensions" Version="12.1.1" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="MediatR" Version="14.1.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="MediatR" Version="14.2.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting" Version="10.0.9" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables" Version="10.0.9" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json" Version="10.0.9" />
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="10.0.9" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design" Version="10.0.9" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational" Version="10.0.9" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL" Version="10.0.2" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL" Version="10.0.3" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Identity / Auth">
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="10.0.9" />
@@ -49,27 +49,27 @@
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Messaging / Outbox">
     <!-- 8.x is the last Apache-2.0 line; MassTransit 9 moved to a commercial license. -->
-    <PackageVersion Include="MassTransit" Version="8.5.10" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="MassTransit.RabbitMQ" Version="8.5.10" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="MassTransit" Version="9.1.2" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="MassTransit.RabbitMQ" Version="9.1.2" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Storage / S3">
-    <PackageVersion Include="AWSSDK.S3" Version="4.0.25.3" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="AWSSDK.S3" Version="4.0.100.3" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Caching / Redis">
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.StackExchangeRedis" Version="10.0.9" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.StackExchangeRedis" Version="10.0.9" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="StackExchange.Redis" Version="2.8.16" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="StackExchange.Redis" Version="3.0.17" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Logging">
-    <PackageVersion Include="Serilog.AspNetCore" Version="9.0.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Serilog.Sinks.Console" Version="6.0.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Serilog.AspNetCore" Version="10.0.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Serilog.Sinks.Console" Version="6.1.1" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Observability / OpenTelemetry">
     <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting" Version="1.16.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore" Version="1.15.2" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Http" Version="1.15.1" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore" Version="1.16.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Http" Version="1.16.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="1.15.1-beta.1" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Runtime" Version="1.15.1" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Runtime" Version="1.16.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Prometheus.AspNetCore" Version="1.16.0-beta.1" />
     <PackageVersion Include="OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol" Version="1.16.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
@@ -79,13 +79,13 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="AspNetCore.HealthChecks.MongoDb" Version="9.0.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Testing">
-    <PackageVersion Include="coverlet.collector" Version="6.0.4" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="FluentAssertions" Version="7.0.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="coverlet.collector" Version="10.0.1" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="FluentAssertions" Version="8.10.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing" Version="10.0.9" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="17.14.1" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="NSubstitute" Version="5.3.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Testcontainers.PostgreSql" Version="4.1.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="18.7.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="NSubstitute" Version="6.0.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Testcontainers.PostgreSql" Version="4.13.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="xunit" Version="2.9.3" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" Version="3.1.4" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" Version="3.1.5" />
   </ItemGroup>
 </Project>