updated dependencies
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 8f7dbd0..9825f59 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     repositories {
         jcenter()
         maven {
-            url 'http://repo.spring.io/plugins-release'
+            url 'https://repo.spring.io/plugins-release'
         }
     }
 }
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
 plugins {
     id 'com.github.hierynomus.license' version '0.15.0'
     id 'org.nosphere.apache.rat' version '0.6.0'
-    id 'com.jfrog.artifactory' version '4.15.1'
-    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.9.RELEASE'
-    id "org.springframework.boot" version "2.2.6.RELEASE"
+    id 'com.jfrog.artifactory' version '4.18.2'
+    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.10.RELEASE'
+    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.4.1'
     id 'maven-publish'
     id 'idea'
     id 'java'
@@ -47,25 +47,19 @@
     maven { url 'https://mifos.jfrog.io/mifos/libs-snapshot/' }
 }
 
-dependencyManagement {
-    imports {
-        mavenBom 'io.spring.platform:platform-bom:Cairo-SR8'
-    }
-}
-
 dependencies {
-    compile (
+    implementation (
             [group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'],
-            [group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-dbcp2'],
-            [group: 'org.liquibase', name: 'liquibase-core'],
+            [group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-dbcp2', version: '2.8.0'],
+            [group: 'org.liquibase', name: 'liquibase-core', version: '4.2.2'],
             [group: 'org.apache.fineract.cn', name: 'lang', version: 'spring_boot_2-SNAPSHOT'],
-            [group: 'com.google.code.findbugs', name: 'jsr305']
+            [group: 'com.github.spotbugs', name: 'spotbugs', version: '4.2.0']
     )
 
-    testCompile (
+    testImplementation (
             [group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-test'],
-            [group: 'org.hsqldb', name: 'hsqldb'],
-            [group: 'junit', name: 'junit']
+            [group: 'org.hsqldb', name: 'hsqldb', version: '2.5.1'],
+            [group: 'org.junit.jupiter', name: 'junit-jupiter-api', version: '5.7.0']
     )
 }
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 6623300..28ff446 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.8.1-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists