diff --git a/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/sec/HttpClientAuthLiveTest.java b/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/sec/HttpClientAuthLiveTest.java
index 2f9a2a6058..495d46e91f 100644
--- a/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/sec/HttpClientAuthLiveTest.java
+++ b/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/sec/HttpClientAuthLiveTest.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class HttpClientAuthLiveTest {
 
-    private static final String URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION = "http://localhost:8080/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/api/foos/1";
+    private static final String URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION = "http://localhost:8081/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/api/foos/1";
     private static final String DEFAULT_USER = "user1";
     private static final String DEFAULT_PASS = "user1Pass";
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public class HttpClientAuthLiveTest {
     public final void givenAuthorizationHeaderIsSetManually_whenExecutingGetRequest_thenSuccess2() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
         final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION);
         final String auth = DEFAULT_USER + ":" + DEFAULT_PASS;
-        final byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(auth.getBytes(Charset.forName("US-ASCII")));
+        final byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(auth.getBytes(Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1")));
         final String authHeader = "Basic " + new String(encodedAuth);
         request.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, authHeader);
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ public class HttpClientAuthLiveTest {
 
     private final String authorizationHeader(final String username, final String password) {
         final String auth = username + ":" + password;
-        final byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(auth.getBytes(Charset.forName("US-ASCII")));
+        final byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(auth.getBytes(Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1")));
         final String authHeader = "Basic " + new String(encodedAuth);
 
         return authHeader;
diff --git a/spring-katharsis/.project b/spring-katharsis/.project
index 03ad78567d..3284dc1199 100644
--- a/spring-katharsis/.project
+++ b/spring-katharsis/.project
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 	<projects>
 	</projects>
 	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
 		<buildCommand>
 			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
 			<arguments>
@@ -25,5 +30,6 @@
 		<nature>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springnature</nature>
 		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
 		<nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.nature</nature>
 	</natures>
 </projectDescription>
diff --git a/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/pom.xml b/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/pom.xml
index f59bf5156b..a6d5b36381 100644
--- a/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/pom.xml
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <!-- Spring -->
-        <org.springframework.version>4.2.0.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
+        <org.springframework.version>4.2.2.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
         <org.springframework.security.version>4.0.2.RELEASE</org.springframework.security.version>
 
         <!-- persistence -->
@@ -295,8 +295,8 @@
         <mysql-connector-java.version>5.1.36</mysql-connector-java.version>
 
         <!-- http -->
-        <httpcore.version>4.4.1</httpcore.version>
-        <httpclient.version>4.5</httpclient.version>
+        <httpcore.version>4.4.3</httpcore.version>
+        <httpclient.version>4.5.1</httpclient.version>
 
         <!-- logging -->
         <org.slf4j.version>1.7.12</org.slf4j.version>
@@ -314,13 +314,13 @@
         <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
         <mockito.version>1.10.19</mockito.version>
 
-        <rest-assured.version>2.4.1</rest-assured.version>
+        <rest-assured.version>2.6.0</rest-assured.version>
 
         <!-- Maven plugins -->
         <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.3</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
         <maven-war-plugin.version>2.6</maven-war-plugin.version>
-        <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.18.1</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
-        <cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.4.15</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
+        <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.19</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+        <cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.4.16</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
 
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml b/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
index 6e49359621..6beea901df 100644
--- a/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
+++ b/spring-security-rest-basic-auth/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
     xsi:schemaLocation="
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/security 
-        http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-4.0.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
-        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd"
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd"
 >
 
     <http create-session="stateless" use-expressions="true">