diff --git a/.github/copilot-instructions.md b/.github/copilot-instructions.md
index f3a13a0..4d3ff40 100644
--- a/.github/copilot-instructions.md
+++ b/.github/copilot-instructions.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 - Return `Task` or `ValueTask` from asynchronous methods.
 - Use `CancellationToken` parameters to support cancellation.
 - Avoid async void methods except for event handlers.
-- Call `ConfigureAwait(false)` on awaited calls to avoid deadlocks.
+- Use `ConfigureAwait(false)` only in library code that may be consumed by apps with a `SynchronizationContext` (e.g., classic ASP.NET, WPF, WinForms); it is generally unnecessary in ASP.NET Core.
 
 ### Error Handling
 
diff --git a/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch.csproj b/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch.csproj
index 0f84d6b..fc1fe36 100644
--- a/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch.csproj
+++ b/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch/SqlDatabaseVectorSearch.csproj
@@ -9,27 +9,27 @@
 
     <ItemGroup>
         <PackageReference Include="Blazor.Bootstrap" Version="3.5.0" />
-        <PackageReference Include="DocumentFormat.OpenXml" Version="3.4.1" />
-        <PackageReference Include="EntityFrameworkCore.Exceptions.SqlServer" Version="8.1.3" />
+        <PackageReference Include="DocumentFormat.OpenXml" Version="3.5.1" />
+        <PackageReference Include="EntityFrameworkCore.Exceptions.SqlServer" Version="10.0.0" />
         <PackageReference Include="FluentValidation.DependencyInjectionExtensions" Version="12.1.1" />
-        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi" Version="10.0.3" />
-        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" Version="10.0.3" />
-        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="10.0.3">
+        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi" Version="10.0.6" />
+        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" Version="10.0.6" />
+        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="10.0.6">
             <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
             <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
         </PackageReference>
-        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Hybrid" Version="10.3.0" />
-        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience" Version="10.3.0" />
+        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Hybrid" Version="10.5.0" />
+        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience" Version="10.5.0" />
         <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers" Version="2.0.0" />
         <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.Cl100kBase" Version="2.0.0" />
         <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.O200kBase" Version="2.0.0" />
-        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel" Version="1.72.0" />
+        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel" Version="1.74.0" />
         <PackageReference Include="MimeMapping" Version="4.0.0" />
         <PackageReference Include="MinimalHelpers.FluentValidation" Version="1.1.8" />
         <PackageReference Include="MinimalHelpers.Routing.Analyzers" Version="1.2.2" />
-        <PackageReference Include="PdfPig" Version="0.1.13" />
-        <PackageReference Include="Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.SwaggerUI" Version="10.1.4" />
-        <PackageReference Include="TinyHelpers.AspNetCore" Version="4.1.18" />
+        <PackageReference Include="PdfPig" Version="0.1.14" />
+        <PackageReference Include="Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.SwaggerUI" Version="10.1.7" />
+        <PackageReference Include="TinyHelpers.AspNetCore" Version="4.1.21" />
     </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>