diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/pom.xml
index ce349d9dc3..02af06dc9d 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-        <joda-time.version>2.10</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDate.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDate.java
index cb024eea53..ba4f14ec5f 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDate.java
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDate.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 
 public class SimpleParseDate {
 
-    public Date parseDate(String dateString, List<String> formatStrings) {
+    public static Date parseDate(String dateString, List<String> formatStrings) {
         for (String formatString : formatStrings) {
             try {
                 return new SimpleDateFormat(formatString).parse(dateString);
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDateUnitTest.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDateUnitTest.java
index d7cbb6a834..ed8607fd96 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDateUnitTest.java
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDateUnitTest.java
@@ -1,43 +1,41 @@
 package com.baeldung.parsingDates;
 
-import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleDateTimeFormat;
-import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleDateTimeFormater;
-import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleDateUtils;
-import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleParseDate;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+
 import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
-import org.junit.*;
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
 import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-public class SimpleParseDateUnitTest {
+class SimpleParseDateUnitTest {
 
     @Test
-    public void whenInvalidInput_thenGettingUnexpectedResult() {
-        SimpleParseDate simpleParseDate = new SimpleParseDate();
+    void whenInvalidInput_thenGettingUnexpectedResult() {
         String date = "2022-40-40";
-        assertEquals("Sat May 10 00:00:00 UTC 2025", simpleParseDate.parseDate(date, Arrays.asList("MM/dd/yyyy", "dd.MM.yyyy", "yyyy-MM-dd")).toString());
+        assertEquals("Sat May 10 00:00:00 UTC 2025", SimpleParseDate.parseDate(date, Arrays.asList("MM/dd/yyyy", "dd.MM.yyyy", "yyyy-MM-dd"))
+            .toString());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void whenInvalidDate_thenAssertThrows() {
-        SimpleDateTimeFormater simpleDateTimeFormater = new SimpleDateTimeFormater();
-        assertEquals(java.time.LocalDate.parse("2022-12-04"), simpleDateTimeFormater.parseDate("2022-12-04"));
-        assertThrows(DateTimeParseException.class, () -> simpleDateTimeFormater.parseDate("2022-13-04"));
+    void whenInvalidDate_thenAssertThrows() {
+        assertEquals(java.time.LocalDate.parse("2022-12-04"), SimpleDateTimeFormater.parseDate("2022-12-04"));
+        assertThrows(DateTimeParseException.class, () -> SimpleDateTimeFormater.parseDate("2022-13-04"));
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void whenDateIsCorrect_thenParseCorrect() {
-        SimpleDateUtils simpleDateUtils = new SimpleDateUtils();
-        assertNull(simpleDateUtils.parseDate("53/10/2014"));
-        assertEquals("Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 UTC 2014", simpleDateUtils.parseDate("10/09/2014").toString());
+    void whenDateIsCorrect_thenParseCorrect() {
+        assertNull(SimpleDateUtils.parseDate("53/10/2014"));
+        assertEquals("Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 UTC 2014", SimpleDateUtils.parseDate("10/09/2014")
+            .toString());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void whenDateIsCorrect_thenResultCorrect() {
-        SimpleDateTimeFormat simpleDateTimeFormat = new SimpleDateTimeFormat();
-        assertNull(simpleDateTimeFormat.parseDate("53/10/2014"));
-        assertEquals(LocalDate.parse("2014-10-10"), simpleDateTimeFormat.parseDate("2014-10-10"));
+    void whenDateIsCorrect_thenResultCorrect() {
+        assertNull(SimpleDateTimeFormat.parseDate("53/10/2014"));
+        assertEquals(LocalDate.parse("2014-10-10"), SimpleDateTimeFormat.parseDate("2014-10-10"));
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime/pom.xml
index 481b1a6a69..06ecc3d017 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime/pom.xml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-        <joda-time.version>2.10</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-1/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-1/pom.xml
index 5bfbb5bab0..3d7335c86e 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-1/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-1/pom.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
-        <joda-time.version>2.10</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
         <hirondelle-date4j.version>RELEASE</hirondelle-date4j.version>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.9</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.9</maven.compiler.target>
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-2/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-2/pom.xml
index c6a22a4166..86fbbf614e 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-2/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-date-operations-2/pom.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>
-        <joda-time.version>2.10</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
         <hirondelle-date4j.version>1.5.1</hirondelle-date4j.version>
         <prettytime.version>3.2.7.Final</prettytime.version>
         <time4j-base.version>5.9</time4j-base.version>
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-datetime-conversion/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-datetime-conversion/pom.xml
index 3ff26323df..8e148edaad 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-datetime-conversion/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-datetime-conversion/pom.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
-        <joda-time.version>2.10</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.9</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.9</maven.compiler.target>
     </properties>
diff --git a/json-modules/gson/pom.xml b/json-modules/gson/pom.xml
index ba968d9ae1..9e29bab3c4 100644
--- a/json-modules/gson/pom.xml
+++ b/json-modules/gson/pom.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <gson.version>2.10.1</gson.version>
-        <joda-time.version>2.9.6</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/persistence-modules/spring-data-couchbase-2/pom.xml b/persistence-modules/spring-data-couchbase-2/pom.xml
index 45462d477e..eda2c45371 100644
--- a/persistence-modules/spring-data-couchbase-2/pom.xml
+++ b/persistence-modules/spring-data-couchbase-2/pom.xml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
         <spring-framework.version>6.0.6</spring-framework.version>
         <spring-data-couchbase.version>5.0.3</spring-data-couchbase.version>
         <hibernate-validator.version>8.0.1.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
-        <joda-time.version>2.12.2</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-ejb-modules/ejb-beans/pom.xml b/spring-ejb-modules/ejb-beans/pom.xml
index 94f7963ad6..6203db5f5a 100644
--- a/spring-ejb-modules/ejb-beans/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-ejb-modules/ejb-beans/pom.xml
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
         <mockito.version>2.21.0</mockito.version>
         <maven-dependency-plugin.version>2.8</maven-dependency-plugin.version>
         <wildfly-ejb.version>8.2.1.Final</wildfly-ejb.version>
-        <joda-time.version>2.10.12</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-static-resources/pom.xml b/spring-static-resources/pom.xml
index f682eafdbe..173c5a5af0 100644
--- a/spring-static-resources/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-static-resources/pom.xml
@@ -121,12 +121,6 @@
             <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
             <version>${hibernate-validator.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <!-- Joda Time Library -->
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
-            <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
-            <version>${joda-time.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <!-- Handlebars.java -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.jknack</groupId>
@@ -196,7 +190,6 @@
         <!-- various 1.3.2 -->
         <hibernate-validator.version>6.0.10.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
         <handlebars.version>4.1.0</handlebars.version>
-        <joda-time.version>2.10</joda-time.version>
         <inject.version>1</inject.version>
         <!-- Maven plugins -->
         <yuicompressor-maven-plugin.version>1.5.1</yuicompressor-maven-plugin.version>
diff --git a/testing-modules/rest-assured/pom.xml b/testing-modules/rest-assured/pom.xml
index a4860b641d..d07e6d3b28 100644
--- a/testing-modules/rest-assured/pom.xml
+++ b/testing-modules/rest-assured/pom.xml
@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@
             <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
             <version>${javax.mail.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
-            <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
-            <version>${joda-time.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
@@ -184,7 +179,6 @@
         <httpclient.version>4.5.2</httpclient.version>
         <uri-template.version>0.9</uri-template.version>
         <libphonenumber.version>8.0.0</libphonenumber.version>
-        <joda-time.version>2.9.6</joda-time.version>
         <msg-simple.version>1.1</msg-simple.version>
         <btf.version>1.2</btf.version>
         <wiremock.version>2.27.2</wiremock.version>
diff --git a/video-tutorials/jackson-annotations/pom.xml b/video-tutorials/jackson-annotations/pom.xml
index eaec50c1f7..611a337b0c 100644
--- a/video-tutorials/jackson-annotations/pom.xml
+++ b/video-tutorials/jackson-annotations/pom.xml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <!-- various -->
-        <joda-time.version>2.9.6</joda-time.version>
+        <joda-time.version>2.12.5</joda-time.version>
         <gson.version>2.8.0</gson.version>
         <!-- testing -->
         <rest-assured.version>3.0.1</rest-assured.version>