diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a88fa5f..65ab6d7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <groupId>nl.mpi</groupId>
     <artifactId>oai-harvest-manager</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <version>1.2.0</version>
+    <version>1.2.1</version>
     <name>OAI Harvest Manager</name>
     <description>This application manages OAI-PMH harvesting workflows</description>
 
@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
-            <version>2.13.3</version>
+            <version>2.16.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-            <version>1.7.30</version>
+            <version>1.7.32</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.13.1</version>
+            <version>4.13.2</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
             <version>3.4.6</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
   
 
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
             <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-            <version>2.4.0</version>
+            <version>2.6.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            <version>29.0-jre</version>
+            <version>31.0.1-jre</version>
         </dependency>
     
         <!-- for java 11 -->
diff --git a/src/main/java/nl/mpi/oai/harvester/control/Configuration.java b/src/main/java/nl/mpi/oai/harvester/control/Configuration.java
index 99fcade..3831970 100644
--- a/src/main/java/nl/mpi/oai/harvester/control/Configuration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/nl/mpi/oai/harvester/control/Configuration.java
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@
 import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
 import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
 
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.reset;
-
 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;