diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3f155121..0efe1754 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -26,3 +26,9 @@
 .envrc
 /inventory.yaml
 /spec/fixtures/litmus_inventory.yaml
+.resource_types
+.modules
+.task_cache.json
+.plan_cache.json
+.rerun.json
+bolt-debug.log
diff --git a/.pdkignore b/.pdkignore
index 862847a7..9403b089 100644
--- a/.pdkignore
+++ b/.pdkignore
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@
 .envrc
 /inventory.yaml
 /spec/fixtures/litmus_inventory.yaml
+.resource_types
+.modules
+.task_cache.json
+.plan_cache.json
+.rerun.json
+bolt-debug.log
 /.fixtures.yml
 /Gemfile
 /.gitattributes
diff --git a/.vscode/extensions.json b/.vscode/extensions.json
index 2f1e4f73..6da8d472 100644
--- a/.vscode/extensions.json
+++ b/.vscode/extensions.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "recommendations": [
     "puppet.puppet-vscode",
-    "rebornix.Ruby"
+    "Shopify.ruby-lsp"
   ]
 }
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 3672520d..197de74b 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ group :development do
   gem "json", '= 2.6.1',                         require: false if Gem::Requirement.create(['>= 3.1.0', '< 3.1.3']).satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup))
   gem "json", '= 2.6.3',                         require: false if Gem::Requirement.create(['>= 3.2.0', '< 4.0.0']).satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup))
   gem "racc", '~> 1.4.0',                        require: false if Gem::Requirement.create(['>= 2.7.0', '< 3.0.0']).satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup))
+  gem "deep_merge", '~> 1.2.2',                  require: false
   gem "voxpupuli-puppet-lint-plugins", '~> 5.0', require: false
-  gem "facterdb", '~> 1.18',                     require: false
+  gem "facterdb", '~> 1.26',                     require: false
   gem "metadata-json-lint", '~> 4.0',            require: false
-  gem "puppetlabs_spec_helper", '~> 6.0',        require: false
-  gem "rspec-puppet-facts", '~> 2.0',            require: false
+  gem "rspec-puppet-facts", '~> 3.0',            require: false
   gem "dependency_checker", '~> 1.0.0',          require: false
   gem "parallel_tests", '= 3.12.1',              require: false
   gem "pry", '~> 0.10',                          require: false
@@ -33,16 +33,17 @@ group :development do
   gem "rubocop", '~> 1.50.0',                    require: false
   gem "rubocop-performance", '= 1.16.0',         require: false
   gem "rubocop-rspec", '= 2.19.0',               require: false
-  gem "puppet-strings", '~> 4.0',                require: false
   gem "rb-readline", '= 0.5.5',                  require: false, platforms: [:mswin, :mingw, :x64_mingw]
+  gem "rexml", '>= 3.0.0', '< 3.2.7',            require: false
 end
-group :system_tests do
-  gem "puppet_litmus", '~> 1.0', require: false, platforms: [:ruby, :x64_mingw]
-  gem "serverspec", '~> 2.41',   require: false
-end
-group :release_prep do
+group :development, :release_prep do
   gem "puppet-strings", '~> 4.0',         require: false
-  gem "puppetlabs_spec_helper", '~> 6.0', require: false
+  gem "puppetlabs_spec_helper", '~> 7.0', require: false
+end
+group :system_tests do
+  gem "puppet_litmus", '~> 1.0',   require: false, platforms: [:ruby, :x64_mingw]
+  gem "CFPropertyList", '< 3.0.7', require: false, platforms: [:mswin, :mingw, :x64_mingw]
+  gem "serverspec", '~> 2.41',     require: false
 end
 
 puppet_version = ENV['PUPPET_GEM_VERSION']
diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json
index 6b197ead..6bc0768f 100644
--- a/metadata.json
+++ b/metadata.json
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
       "version_requirement": ">= 7.0.0 < 9.0.0"
     }
   ],
-  "pdk-version": "3.0.1",
+  "pdk-version": "3.2.0",
   "template-url": "https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk-templates#main",
-  "template-ref": "heads/main-0-g23c6fff"
+  "template-ref": "heads/main-0-g9bdfa4b"
 }
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 3399b177..7ce005c5 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
   next unless File.exist?(f) && File.readable?(f) && File.size?(f)
 
   begin
-    default_facts.merge!(YAML.safe_load(File.read(f), permitted_classes: [], permitted_symbols: [], aliases: true))
+    require 'deep_merge'
+    default_facts.deep_merge!(YAML.safe_load(File.read(f), permitted_classes: [], permitted_symbols: [], aliases: true))
   rescue StandardError => e
     RSpec.configuration.reporter.message "WARNING: Unable to load #{f}: #{e}"
   end
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@
 
 # read default_facts and merge them over what is provided by facterdb
 default_facts.each do |fact, value|
-  add_custom_fact fact, value
+  add_custom_fact fact, value, merge_facts: true
 end
 
 RSpec.configure do |c|