diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 57bf309..0bb6a8e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ aws-credential-types = { version = "1.2", optional = true }
 aws-types = { version = "1.3", optional = true }
 sha2 = "0.10"
 utoipa-swagger-ui = { version = "9", features = ["axum"] }
-testcontainers = { version = "0.24", optional = true }
+testcontainers = { version = "0.26", optional = true }
 testcontainers-modules = { version = "0.12", features = ["postgres"], optional = true }
 # Office document support - now using XML extraction only
 zip = "0.6"             # Still needed for other archive handling
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ tokio-test = "0.4"
 futures = "0.3"
 rand = "0.8"
 # Database testing dependencies
-testcontainers = "0.24"
+testcontainers = "0.26"
 testcontainers-modules = { version = "0.12", features = ["postgres"] }
 # Dependencies for creating proper test Office documents
 rust_xlsxwriter = "0.92"  # For creating proper XLSX test files