diff --git a/.github/linters/.python-lint b/.github/linters/.python-lint
index 6de8dd2..5fad82e 100644
--- a/.github/linters/.python-lint
+++ b/.github/linters/.python-lint
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ disable=bad-inline-option,
         too-many-arguments,
         too-many-branches,
         too-many-locals,
+        too-many-positional-arguments,
         too-many-statements,
         useless-suppression,
         use-symbolic-message-instead,
diff --git a/.github/workflows/contributors_report.yaml b/.github/workflows/contributors_report.yaml
index e77cd36..57041d2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/contributors_report.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/contributors_report.yaml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "END_DATE=$end_date" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
       - name: Run contributor action
-        uses: github/contributors@1286dc8d6904a9a7f735e28b7503be164fb7d4b9
+        uses: github/contributors@90922d5748ecaf8417a3b7a0eedb4892c8fa1c44
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           START_DATE: ${{ env.START_DATE }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-ci.yml
index 90fe96b..14cc976 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-ci.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
       - name: Build the Docker image
         run: docker build . --file Dockerfile --platform linux/amd64
diff --git a/.github/workflows/major-version-updater.yml b/.github/workflows/major-version-updater.yml
index 066d389..aac4de5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/major-version-updater.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/major-version-updater.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
 
       - name: version
         id: version
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ jobs:
           tag=${GITHUB_REF/refs\/tags\//};
           version=${tag#v} ;
           major=${version%%.*} ;
-          echo "tag=${tag}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" ;
-          echo "version=${version}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" ;
-          echo "major=${major}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" ;
+          { echo "tag=${tag}" ; echo "version=${version}" ; echo "major=${major}" ; } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" ;
 
       - name: force update major tag
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
index ff0f30e..5eef415 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         python-version: [3.11, 3.12]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@0b93645e9fea7318ecaed2b359559ac225c90a2b
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5.3.0
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Install dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index e681c61..931a016 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
         id: get_tag_name
         run: |
           short_tag=$(echo ${{ steps.release-drafter.outputs.tag_name }} | cut -d. -f1)
-          echo "SHORT_TAG=$short_tag" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "SHORT_TAG=$short_tag" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
   create_action_images:
     needs: create_release
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -53,17 +53,17 @@ jobs:
       IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }}
     steps:
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@c47758b77c9736f4b2ef4073d4d51994fabfe349
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@6524bf65af31da8d45b59e8c27de4bd072b392f5
       - name: Log in to the Container registry
         uses: docker/login-action@9780b0c442fbb1117ed29e0efdff1e18412f7567
         with:
           registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}
           username: ${{ github.actor }}
           password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
       - name: Push Docker Image
         if: ${{ success() }}
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@4f58ea79222b3b9dc2c8bbdd6debcef730109a75
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@48aba3b46d1b1fec4febb7c5d0c644b249a11355
         with:
           context: .
           file: ./Dockerfile
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
index b0f9265..3d475a4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout code"
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
 
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ jobs:
           results_format: sarif
           publish_results: true
       - name: "Upload artifact"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4.5.0
         with:
           name: SARIF file
           path: results.sarif
           retention-days: 5
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@662472033e021d55d94146f66f6058822b0b39fd # v3.27.0
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@48ab28a6f5dbc2a99bf1e0131198dd8f1df78169 # v3.28.0
         with:
           sarif_file: results.sarif
diff --git a/.github/workflows/stale.yml b/.github/workflows/stale.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d8c416
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/stale.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+name: "Close stale issues"
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "30 1 * * *"
+
+permissions:
+  issues: write
+  pull-requests: read
+
+jobs:
+  stale:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/stale@v9.0.0
+        with:
+          stale-issue-message: "This issue is stale because it has been open 21 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 14 days."
+          close-issue-message: "This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 35 days with no activity."
+          days-before-stale: 21
+          days-before-close: 14
+          days-before-pr-close: -1
+          exempt-issue-labels: keep
diff --git a/.github/workflows/super-linter.yaml b/.github/workflows/super-linter.yaml
index b41f192..2cf68b6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/super-linter.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/super-linter.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       statuses: write
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Install dependencies
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-test.txt
       - name: Lint Code Base
-        uses: super-linter/super-linter@b92721f792f381cedc002ecdbb9847a15ece5bb8
+        uses: super-linter/super-linter@85f7611e0f7b53c8573cca84aa0ed4344f6f6a4d
         env:
           DEFAULT_BRANCH: main
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 5fdb73b..6fe5a80 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #checkov:skip=CKV_DOCKER_2
 #checkov:skip=CKV_DOCKER_3
-FROM python:3.13-slim@sha256:751d8bece269ba9e672b3f2226050e7e6fb3f3da3408b5dcb5d415a054fcb061
+FROM python:3.13-slim@sha256:1127090f9fff0b8e7c3a1367855ef8a3299472d2c9ed122948a576c39addeaf1
 LABEL com.github.actions.name="contributors" \
     com.github.actions.description="GitHub Action that given an organization or repository, produces information about the contributors over the specified time period." \
     com.github.actions.icon="users" \
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
index 1be36d2..75c3626 100644
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 black==24.10.0
 flake8==7.1.1
-mypy==1.13.0
+mypy==1.14.0
 mypy-extensions==1.0.0
-pylint==3.3.1
-pytest==8.3.3
-pytest-cov==5.0.0
+pylint==3.3.3
+pytest==8.3.4
+pytest-cov==6.0.0
 types-requests==2.32.0.20241016
diff --git a/test_auth.py b/test_auth.py
index 7a595fe..9337abc 100644
--- a/test_auth.py
+++ b/test_auth.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
 import auth
+import requests
 
 
 class TestAuth(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -91,6 +92,42 @@ def test_get_github_app_installation_token(self, mock_post):
 
         self.assertEqual(result, dummy_token)
 
+    @patch("github3.apps.create_jwt_headers", MagicMock(return_value="gh_token"))
+    @patch("auth.requests.post")
+    def test_get_github_app_installation_token_request_failure(self, mock_post):
+        """
+        Test the get_github_app_installation_token function returns None when the request fails.
+        """
+        # Mock the post request to raise a RequestException
+        mock_post.side_effect = requests.exceptions.RequestException("Request failed")
+
+        # Call the function with test data
+        result = auth.get_github_app_installation_token(
+            ghe="https://api.github.com",
+            gh_app_id=12345,
+            gh_app_private_key_bytes=b"private_key",
+            gh_app_installation_id=678910,
+        )
+
+        # Assert that the result is None
+        self.assertIsNone(result)
+
+    @patch("github3.login")
+    def test_auth_to_github_invalid_credentials(self, mock_login):
+        """
+        Test the auth_to_github function raises correct ValueError
+        when credentials are present but incorrect.
+        """
+        mock_login.return_value = None
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as context_manager:
+            auth.auth_to_github("not_a_valid_token", "", "", b"", "", False)
+
+        the_exception = context_manager.exception
+        self.assertEqual(
+            str(the_exception),
+            "Unable to authenticate to GitHub",
+        )
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()