diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 413ce4b18..7920383a1 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ updates:
     directory: /
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
-    "caronc/apprise":
-      versioning-strategy: "increase"
-      schedule:
-        interval: "daily"
     groups:
       all:
         patterns:
         - "*"
+  - package-ecosystem: pip
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: "daily"
+    allow:
+      - dependency-name: "apprise"
diff --git a/changedetectionio/run_socks_proxy_tests.sh b/changedetectionio/run_socks_proxy_tests.sh
index 6db4bb411..8214c1cf0 100755
--- a/changedetectionio/run_socks_proxy_tests.sh
+++ b/changedetectionio/run_socks_proxy_tests.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ set -x
 # SOCKS5 related - start simple Socks5 proxy server
 # SOCKSTEST=xyz should show in the logs of this service to confirm it fetched
 docker run --network changedet-network -d --hostname socks5proxy --rm  --name socks5proxy -p 1080:1080 -e PROXY_USER=proxy_user123 -e PROXY_PASSWORD=proxy_pass123 serjs/go-socks5-proxy
-docker run --network changedet-network -d --hostname socks5proxy-noauth --rm  -p 1081:1080 --name socks5proxy-noauth  serjs/go-socks5-proxy
+docker run --network changedet-network -d --hostname socks5proxy-noauth --rm -p 1081:1080 --name socks5proxy-noauth -e REQUIRE_AUTH=false serjs/go-socks5-proxy
 
 echo "---------------------------------- SOCKS5 -------------------"
 # SOCKS5 related - test from proxies.json
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 084f52619..27a3584d6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jsonpath-ng~=1.5.3
 # jq not available on Windows so must be installed manually
 
 # Notification library
-apprise==1.9.3
+apprise==1.9.4
 
 # - Needed for apprise/spush, and maybe others? hopefully doesnt trigger a rust compile.
 # - Requires extra wheel for rPi, adds build time for arm/v8 which is not in piwheels
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ cryptography==44.0.1
 # use any version other than 2.0.x due to https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.python/issues/814
 paho-mqtt!=2.0.*
 
-# Used for CSS filtering
-beautifulsoup4>=4.0.0
+# Used for CSS filtering, JSON extraction from HTML
+beautifulsoup4>=4.0.0,<=4.13.5
 
 # XPath filtering, lxml is required by bs4 anyway, but put it here to be safe.
 # #2328 - 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 had extra CPU flag CFLAGS set which was not compatible on older hardware