diff --git a/.copyrightconfig b/.copyrightconfig
index f4edcd1..c258197 100644
--- a/.copyrightconfig
+++ b/.copyrightconfig
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ startyear: 2023
 #   - Use sparingly (third_party, generated, binary assets)
 #   - Dotfiles already skipped automatically
 # Enable by removing the leading '# ' from the next line and editing values.
-filesexcluded: .github/*, README.md, Jenkinsfile, gradle/*, docker-compose.yml, *.gradle, gradle.properties, gradlew, gradlew.bat, CODEOWNERS, *.lock, *.toml
+filesexcluded: .github/*, README.md, Jenkinsfile, gradle/*, docker-compose.yml, *.gradle, gradle.properties, gradlew, gradlew.bat, CODEOWNERS, *.lock, *.toml, *.md
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 4e4f1b5..8e586b0 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ for getting setup in VSCode with linting and formatting enabled.
 
 Before running any tests, first deploy the test application:
 
-- Use Java 8 or higher
+- Use Java 17
 - `cd test-app`
 - Create a file named `gradle-local.properties` and add `mlPassword=` to it, with the value of the property being
 your admin user's password.
@@ -105,4 +105,4 @@ though you don't need to perform all of those steps since some of the files gene
 4. Run `bundle install` (this may not be necessary due to Gemfile.lock being in version control).
 5. Run `bundle exec jekyll serve`.
 
-You can then go to http://localhost:4000 to view the docs. 
\ No newline at end of file
+You can then go to http://localhost:4000 to view the docs. 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index d242d76..c661be5 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ description = "Backport of PEP 654 (exception groups)"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 groups = ["dev", "test"]
-markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""
+markers = "python_version == \"3.10\""
 files = [
     {file = "exceptiongroup-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a7a39a3bd276781e98394987d3a5701d0c4edffb633bb7a5144577f82c773598"},
     {file = "exceptiongroup-1.3.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8b412432c6055b0b7d14c310000ae93352ed6754f70fa8f7c34141f91c4e3219"},
@@ -470,31 +470,6 @@ files = [
 [package.extras]
 all = ["flake8 (>=7.1.1)", "mypy (>=1.11.2)", "pytest (>=8.3.2)", "ruff (>=0.6.2)"]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "importlib-metadata"
-version = "8.7.0"
-description = "Read metadata from Python packages"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["dev"]
-markers = "python_version == \"3.9\""
-files = [
-    {file = "importlib_metadata-8.7.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:e5dd1551894c77868a30651cef00984d50e1002d06942a7101d34870c5f02afd"},
-    {file = "importlib_metadata-8.7.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d13b81ad223b890aa16c5471f2ac3056cf76c5f10f82d6f9292f0b415f389000"},
-]
-
-[package.dependencies]
-zipp = ">=3.20"
-
-[package.extras]
-check = ["pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-ruff (>=0.2.1) ; sys_platform != \"cygwin\""]
-cover = ["pytest-cov"]
-doc = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-lint"]
-enabler = ["pytest-enabler (>=2.2)"]
-perf = ["ipython"]
-test = ["flufl.flake8", "importlib_resources (>=1.3) ; python_version < \"3.9\"", "jaraco.test (>=5.4)", "packaging", "pyfakefs", "pytest (>=6,!=8.1.*)", "pytest-perf (>=0.9.2)"]
-type = ["pytest-mypy"]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "iniconfig"
 version = "2.1.0"
@@ -564,7 +539,6 @@ prompt-toolkit = ">=3.0.41,<3.1.0"
 pygments = ">=2.4.0"
 stack-data = "*"
 traitlets = ">=5"
-typing-extensions = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""}
 
 [package.extras]
 all = ["black", "curio", "docrepr", "exceptiongroup", "ipykernel", "ipyparallel", "ipywidgets", "matplotlib", "matplotlib (!=3.2.0)", "nbconvert", "nbformat", "notebook", "numpy (>=1.22)", "pandas", "pickleshare", "pytest (<7)", "pytest (<7.1)", "pytest-asyncio (<0.22)", "qtconsole", "setuptools (>=18.5)", "sphinx (>=1.3)", "sphinx-rtd-theme", "stack-data", "testpath", "trio", "typing-extensions"]
@@ -612,7 +586,6 @@ files = [
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-importlib-metadata = {version = ">=4.8.3", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""}
 jupyter-core = ">=4.12,<5.0.dev0 || >=5.1.dev0"
 python-dateutil = ">=2.8.2"
 pyzmq = ">=23.0"
@@ -906,7 +879,7 @@ version = "2.19.2"
 description = "Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
-groups = ["dev"]
+groups = ["dev", "test"]
 files = [
     {file = "pygments-2.19.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:86540386c03d588bb81d44bc3928634ff26449851e99741617ecb9037ee5ec0b"},
     {file = "pygments-2.19.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:636cb2477cec7f8952536970bc533bc43743542f70392ae026374600add5b887"},
@@ -917,26 +890,27 @@ windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest"
-version = "7.4.4"
+version = "9.0.2"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.7"
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
 groups = ["test"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-7.4.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b090cdf5ed60bf4c45261be03239c2c1c22df034fbffe691abe93cd80cea01d8"},
-    {file = "pytest-7.4.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2cf0005922c6ace4a3e2ec8b4080eb0d9753fdc93107415332f50ce9e7994280"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:711ffd45bf766d5264d487b917733b453d917afd2b0ad65223959f59089f875b"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:75186651a92bd89611d1d9fc20f0b4345fd827c41ccd5c299a868a05d70edf11"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
-exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1.0.0rc8", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
-iniconfig = "*"
-packaging = "*"
-pluggy = ">=0.12,<2.0"
-tomli = {version = ">=1.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+colorama = {version = ">=0.4", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
+exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+iniconfig = ">=1.0.1"
+packaging = ">=22"
+pluggy = ">=1.5,<2"
+pygments = ">=2.7.2"
+tomli = {version = ">=1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 
 [package.extras]
-testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2.0)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
+dev = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "python-dateutil"
@@ -1165,7 +1139,7 @@ description = "A lil' TOML parser"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 groups = ["dev", "test"]
-markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""
+markers = "python_version == \"3.10\""
 files = [
     {file = "tomli-2.3.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:88bd15eb972f3664f5ed4b57c1634a97153b4bac4479dcb6a495f41921eb7f45"},
     {file = "tomli-2.3.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:883b1c0d6398a6a9d29b508c331fa56adbcdff647f6ace4dfca0f50e90dfd0ba"},
@@ -1256,7 +1230,7 @@ description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.9+"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 groups = ["dev", "test"]
-markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""
+markers = "python_version == \"3.10\""
 files = [
     {file = "typing_extensions-4.15.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f0fa19c6845758ab08074a0cfa8b7aecb71c999ca73d62883bc25cc018c4e548"},
     {file = "typing_extensions-4.15.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0cea48d173cc12fa28ecabc3b837ea3cf6f38c6d1136f85cbaaf598984861466"},
@@ -1292,28 +1266,7 @@ files = [
     {file = "wcwidth-0.2.14.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:4d478375d31bc5395a3c55c40ccdf3354688364cd61c4f6adacaa9215d0b3605"},
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "zipp"
-version = "3.23.0"
-description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["dev"]
-markers = "python_version == \"3.9\""
-files = [
-    {file = "zipp-3.23.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:071652d6115ed432f5ce1d34c336c0adfd6a884660d1e9712a256d3d3bd4b14e"},
-    {file = "zipp-3.23.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:a07157588a12518c9d4034df3fbbee09c814741a33ff63c05fa29d26a2404166"},
-]
-
-[package.extras]
-check = ["pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-ruff (>=0.2.1) ; sys_platform != \"cygwin\""]
-cover = ["pytest-cov"]
-doc = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-lint"]
-enabler = ["pytest-enabler (>=2.2)"]
-test = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "jaraco.test", "more_itertools", "pytest (>=6,!=8.1.*)", "pytest-ignore-flaky"]
-type = ["pytest-mypy"]
-
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
-python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "8331d4fbbd7b3c664872db7a5d15a8b3f755800a45e330696e7ecd95373df46d"
+python-versions = "^3.10"
+content-hash = "6d985f82204c9957c6ab40a1b6cc3197f3dd33debeb51eb3f42897aca17169d8"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cfed115..182ec25 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "marklogic-python-client"
-version = "1.3.0"
+version = "1.3.1"
 description = "Python client for MarkLogic, built on the requests library"
 authors = ["MarkLogic <general@developer.marklogic.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ packages = [{include = "marklogic"}]
 license = "Apache 2.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.9"
+python = "^3.10"
 requests = "^2.32.5"
 requests_toolbelt = "^1.0.0"
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ requests_toolbelt = "^1.0.0"
 urllib3 = "^2.6.3"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.test.dependencies]
-pytest = "^7.4.0"
+pytest = "^9.0.2"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 flake8 = "^7.1.1"