diff --git a/commitchecker.yaml b/commitchecker.yaml
index 24b0305e1..89178daad 100644
--- a/commitchecker.yaml
+++ b/commitchecker.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-expectedMergeBase: 910fa5978e683c5d33834acb61781b7719d0e26b
+expectedMergeBase: 6e01665fc277a48e07ae06781c2791b325385250
 upstreamBranch: main
 upstreamOrg: operator-framework
 upstreamRepo: operator-controller
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 25d91056c..5d7bdca0e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ ghp-import==2.1.0
 idna==3.11
 Jinja2==3.1.6
 lxml==6.0.2
-Markdown==3.10
+Markdown==3.10.1
 markdown2==2.5.4
 MarkupSafe==3.0.3
 mergedeep==1.3.4
 mkdocs==1.6.1
 mkdocs-material==9.7.1
 mkdocs-material-extensions==1.3.1
-packaging==25.0
+packaging==26.0
 paginate==0.5.7
 pathspec==1.0.3
 platformdirs==4.5.1