For the security concern of the old Slf4j, updating the following dependencies to a stable version:

1. Update 'slf4j-api' to version: '2.0.9'
2. Update 'slf4j-simple' to version: '2.0.9'

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Fixes #<issue_number_goes_here> 🦕