diff --git a/.config/pmd/java/ruleset.xml b/.config/pmd/java/ruleset.xml
index e42e77a4..b6d43e51 100644
--- a/.config/pmd/java/ruleset.xml
+++ b/.config/pmd/java/ruleset.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 	<!-- About: Formatting -->
 	<!-- Some lines (e.g. description, examples and CDATA) have to start without any indents or this will result in incorrect formatting -->
 
+	<rule ref="category/java/bestpractices.xml/AssertStatementInTest"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/bestpractices.xml/AvoidPrintStackTrace"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/bestpractices.xml/AvoidUsingHardCodedIP"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/bestpractices.xml/ConstantsInInterface"/>
@@ -45,8 +46,10 @@
 	<rule ref="category/java/codestyle.xml/LambdaCanBeMethodReference"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/codestyle.xml/NoPackage"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/codestyle.xml/PrematureDeclaration"/>
+	<rule ref="category/java/codestyle.xml/UnnecessaryBlock"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/codestyle.xml/UnnecessarySemicolon"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/codestyle.xml/VariableCanBeInlined"/>
+	<rule ref="category/java/codestyle.xml/VariableDeclarationUsageDistance"/>
 
 	<rule ref="category/java/design.xml">
 		<!-- Sometimes abstract classes have just fields -->
@@ -154,6 +157,7 @@
 	<rule ref="category/java/errorprone.xml/InstantiationToGetClass"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/errorprone.xml/InvalidLogMessageFormat"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/errorprone.xml/JumbledIncrementer"/>
+	<rule ref="category/java/errorprone.xml/JUnitJupiterTestNoPrivateModifier"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/errorprone.xml/MisplacedNullCheck"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/errorprone.xml/MoreThanOneLogger"/>
 	<rule ref="category/java/errorprone.xml/NonStaticInitializer"/>
@@ -417,7 +421,8 @@ If you are 100% sure that you escaped the value properly and you have no better
 				<value>
 <![CDATA[
 //ConstructorCall[pmd-java:typeIs('com.vaadin.flow.component.Html')] |
-//MethodCall[@MethodName='setAttribute' and //ImportDeclaration[starts-with(@PackageName,'com.vaadin')]]/ArgumentList/StringLiteral[1][contains(lower-case(@Image),'html')]
+//MethodCall[@MethodName='setAttribute' and //ImportDeclaration[starts-with(@PackageName,'com.vaadin')]]/ArgumentList/StringLiteral[1][contains(lower-case(@Image),'html')] |
+//MethodCall[pmd-java:matchesSig('com.vaadin.flow.dom.Element#setProperty(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)')]/ArgumentList/StringLiteral[1][contains(lower-case(@Image),'html')]
 ]]>
 				</value>
 			</property>
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 2b7941be..ec86a3bb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ jobs:
       working-directory: ${{ env.PRIMARY_MAVEN_MODULE }}
 
     - name: Deploy to Github pages
-      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@4f9cc6602d3f66b9c108549d475ec49e8ef4d45e # v4
+      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@84c30a85c19949d7eee79c4ff27748b70285e453 # v4
       with:
         github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         publish_dir: ./${{ env.PRIMARY_MAVEN_MODULE }}/target/site
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 284f8c71..84ea1397 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 							<dependency>
 								<groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
 								<artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-								<version>13.4.2</version>
+								<version>13.5.0</version>
 							</dependency>
 						</dependencies>
 						<configuration>
@@ -152,12 +152,12 @@
 							<dependency>
 								<groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
 								<artifactId>pmd-core</artifactId>
-								<version>7.24.0</version>
+								<version>7.25.0</version>
 							</dependency>
 							<dependency>
 								<groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
 								<artifactId>pmd-java</artifactId>
-								<version>7.24.0</version>
+								<version>7.25.0</version>
 							</dependency>
 						</dependencies>
 					</plugin>
diff --git a/spring-data-eclipse-store/pom.xml b/spring-data-eclipse-store/pom.xml
index 01f91900..ff72bf35 100644
--- a/spring-data-eclipse-store/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-data-eclipse-store/pom.xml
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
 							<dependency>
 								<groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
 								<artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-								<version>13.4.2</version>
+								<version>13.5.0</version>
 							</dependency>
 						</dependencies>
 						<configuration>
@@ -453,12 +453,12 @@
 							<dependency>
 								<groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
 								<artifactId>pmd-core</artifactId>
-								<version>7.24.0</version>
+								<version>7.25.0</version>
 							</dependency>
 							<dependency>
 								<groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
 								<artifactId>pmd-java</artifactId>
-								<version>7.24.0</version>
+								<version>7.25.0</version>
 							</dependency>
 						</dependencies>
 					</plugin>