diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4ee43d00a..8d0240bc1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -89,6 +89,17 @@
                     <propertiesEncoding>UTF-8</propertiesEncoding>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>properties</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>3.2.5</version>
@@ -97,6 +108,8 @@
                     <junitArtifactName>org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter</junitArtifactName>
                     <trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
                     <excludedGroups>skip</excludedGroups>
+                    <!-- https://javadoc.io/doc/org.mockito/mockito-core/latest/org.mockito/org/mockito/Mockito.html#0.3 -->
+                    <argLine>-javaagent:${org.mockito:mockito-core:jar}</argLine>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
@@ -290,12 +303,26 @@
             <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
             <version>3.25.3</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <!-- Exclude bytebuddy, messes with tests on java 25+ -->
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.dmulloy2</groupId>
             <artifactId>ProtocolLib</artifactId>
             <version>5.3.0</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <!-- Exclude bytebuddy, messes with tests on java 25+ -->
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
@@ -506,13 +533,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-            <version>5.12.0</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mockito-inline</artifactId>
-            <version>5.2.0</version>
+            <version>5.21.0</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>