diff --git a/.ruby-version b/.ruby-version
index 619b537..a0891f5 100644
--- a/.ruby-version
+++ b/.ruby-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.3.3
+3.3.4
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f80cb97..4bb4c84 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # syntax = docker/dockerfile:1
 
 # Make sure RUBY_VERSION matches the Ruby version in .ruby-version and Gemfile
-ARG RUBY_VERSION=3.3.3
+ARG RUBY_VERSION=3.3.4
 FROM ruby:$RUBY_VERSION-slim as base
 
 LABEL fly_launch_runtime="rails"
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index bf29f1c..e69648e 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
 source "https://rubygems.org"
 git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" }
 
-ruby "3.3.3"
-gem "net-pop", github: "ruby/net-pop" # 3.3.3 hack fix
+ruby "3.3.4"
 
 # CORE
 gem "puma"
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index a2f6e04..4a9c9ee 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-GIT
-  remote: https://github.com/ruby/net-pop.git
-  revision: e8d0afe2773b9eb6a23c39e9e437f6fc0fc7c733
-  specs:
-    net-pop (0.1.2)
-      net-protocol
-
 GEM
   remote: https://rubygems.org/
   specs:
@@ -82,8 +75,8 @@ GEM
       minitest (>= 5.1)
       mutex_m
       tzinfo (~> 2.0)
-    addressable (2.8.6)
-      public_suffix (>= 2.0.2, < 6.0)
+    addressable (2.8.7)
+      public_suffix (>= 2.0.2, < 7.0)
     base64 (0.2.0)
     bcrypt (3.1.20)
     bigdecimal (3.1.8)
@@ -100,7 +93,7 @@ GEM
     crass (1.0.6)
     database_cleaner (2.0.2)
       database_cleaner-active_record (>= 2, < 3)
-    database_cleaner-active_record (2.1.0)
+    database_cleaner-active_record (2.2.0)
       activerecord (>= 5.a)
       database_cleaner-core (~> 2.0.0)
     database_cleaner-core (2.0.1)
@@ -112,17 +105,17 @@ GEM
       railties (>= 4.1.0)
       responders
       warden (~> 1.2.3)
-    devise-jwt (0.11.0)
+    devise-jwt (0.12.1)
       devise (~> 4.0)
-      warden-jwt_auth (~> 0.8)
+      warden-jwt_auth (~> 0.10)
     diff-lcs (1.5.1)
-    dockerfile-rails (1.6.16)
+    dockerfile-rails (1.6.17)
       rails (>= 3.0.0)
     drb (2.2.1)
     dry-auto_inject (1.0.1)
       dry-core (~> 1.0)
       zeitwerk (~> 2.6)
-    dry-configurable (1.1.0)
+    dry-configurable (1.2.0)
       dry-core (~> 1.0, < 2)
       zeitwerk (~> 2.6)
     dry-core (1.0.1)
@@ -137,11 +130,11 @@ GEM
     ffaker (2.23.0)
     globalid (1.2.1)
       activesupport (>= 6.1)
-    hashdiff (1.1.0)
+    hashdiff (1.1.1)
     i18n (1.14.5)
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
     io-console (0.7.2)
-    irb (1.13.2)
+    irb (1.14.0)
       rdoc (>= 4.0.0)
       reline (>= 0.4.2)
     jbuilder (2.12.0)
@@ -150,6 +143,7 @@ GEM
     json_expressions (0.9.0)
     jwt (2.8.2)
       base64
+    logger (1.6.0)
     loofah (2.22.0)
       crass (~> 1.0.2)
       nokogiri (>= 1.12.0)
@@ -160,31 +154,33 @@ GEM
       net-smtp
     marcel (1.0.4)
     mini_mime (1.1.5)
-    minitest (5.24.0)
+    minitest (5.24.1)
     mutex_m (0.2.0)
-    net-imap (0.4.13)
+    net-imap (0.4.14)
       date
       net-protocol
+    net-pop (0.1.2)
+      net-protocol
     net-protocol (0.2.2)
       timeout
     net-smtp (0.5.0)
       net-protocol
     nio4r (2.7.3)
-    nokogiri (1.16.6-aarch64-linux)
+    nokogiri (1.16.7-aarch64-linux)
       racc (~> 1.4)
-    nokogiri (1.16.6-arm64-darwin)
+    nokogiri (1.16.7-arm64-darwin)
       racc (~> 1.4)
-    nokogiri (1.16.6-x86_64-linux)
+    nokogiri (1.16.7-x86_64-linux)
       racc (~> 1.4)
     orm_adapter (0.5.0)
-    pg (1.5.6)
+    pg (1.5.7)
     psych (5.1.2)
       stringio
-    public_suffix (5.1.1)
+    public_suffix (6.0.1)
     puma (6.4.2)
       nio4r (~> 2.0)
-    racc (1.8.0)
-    rack (3.1.3)
+    racc (1.8.1)
+    rack (3.1.7)
     rack-cors (2.0.2)
       rack (>= 2.0.0)
     rack-session (2.0.0)
@@ -240,7 +236,7 @@ GEM
     responders (3.1.1)
       actionpack (>= 5.2)
       railties (>= 5.2)
-    rexml (3.3.0)
+    rexml (3.3.4)
       strscan
     rspec-core (3.13.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.13.0)
@@ -250,7 +246,7 @@ GEM
     rspec-mocks (3.13.1)
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.13.0)
-    rspec-rails (6.1.2)
+    rspec-rails (6.1.3)
       actionpack (>= 6.1)
       activesupport (>= 6.1)
       railties (>= 6.1)
@@ -259,11 +255,12 @@ GEM
       rspec-mocks (~> 3.13)
       rspec-support (~> 3.13)
     rspec-support (3.13.1)
-    sidekiq (7.2.4)
+    sidekiq (7.3.0)
       concurrent-ruby (< 2)
       connection_pool (>= 2.3.0)
+      logger
       rack (>= 2.2.4)
-      redis-client (>= 0.19.0)
+      redis-client (>= 0.22.2)
     stringio (3.1.1)
     strscan (3.1.0)
     thor (1.3.1)
@@ -272,7 +269,7 @@ GEM
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
     warden (1.2.9)
       rack (>= 2.0.9)
-    warden-jwt_auth (0.8.0)
+    warden-jwt_auth (0.10.0)
       dry-auto_inject (>= 0.8, < 2)
       dry-configurable (>= 0.13, < 2)
       jwt (~> 2.1)
@@ -286,7 +283,7 @@ GEM
       websocket-extensions (>= 0.1.0)
     websocket-extensions (0.1.5)
     yard (0.9.36)
-    zeitwerk (2.6.16)
+    zeitwerk (2.6.17)
 
 PLATFORMS
   aarch64-linux
@@ -305,7 +302,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   ffaker
   jbuilder
   json_expressions
-  net-pop!
   pg
   puma
   rack-cors
@@ -320,7 +316,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   yard
 
 RUBY VERSION
-   ruby 3.3.3p89
+   ruby 3.3.4p94
 
 BUNDLED WITH
    2.5.13
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 07bded6..93752a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ To run the server in development mode, you can create a `Procfile` with contents
 such as:
 
 ```
-backend: cd Backend && rvm 3.3.3@flyweight exec rails server
+backend: cd Backend && rvm 3.3.4@flyweight exec rails server
 frontend: cd Frontend && yarn dev
-jobs: cd Backend && rvm 3.3.3@flyweight exec bundle exec sidekiq -C config/sidekiq.yml
-cable: cd Backend && rvm 3.3.3@flyweight exec ./bin/cable
+jobs: cd Backend && rvm 3.3.4@flyweight exec bundle exec sidekiq -C config/sidekiq.yml
+cable: cd Backend && rvm 3.3.4@flyweight exec ./bin/cable
 ```
 
 Install the `foreman` gem to run the Procfile.