diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index b7011785..75814118 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <Project>
  <PropertyGroup>
-   <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+   <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
    <LangVersion>10.0</LangVersion>
    <BotSharpVersion>0.22.0</BotSharpVersion>
    <GeneratePackageOnBuild>false</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
diff --git a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..856284a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#See https://aka.ms/customizecontainer to learn how to customize your debug container and how Visual Studio uses this Dockerfile to build your images for faster debugging.
+
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:8.0 AS base
+USER app
+WORKDIR /app
+EXPOSE 8080
+
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0 AS build
+ARG BUILD_CONFIGURATION=Release
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY ["Directory.Build.props", "."]
+COPY ["src/WebStarter/WebStarter.csproj", "src/WebStarter/"]
+COPY ["tests/BotSharp.Plugin.PizzaBot/BotSharp.Plugin.PizzaBot.csproj", "tests/BotSharp.Plugin.PizzaBot/"]
+COPY ["src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.Core/BotSharp.Core.csproj", "src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.Core/"]
+COPY ["src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.Abstraction/BotSharp.Abstraction.csproj", "src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.Abstraction/"]
+COPY ["src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.Logger/BotSharp.Logger.csproj", "src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.Logger/"]
+COPY ["src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.OpenAPI/BotSharp.OpenAPI.csproj", "src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.OpenAPI/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.GoogleAI/BotSharp.Plugin.GoogleAI.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.GoogleAI/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.MongoStorage/BotSharp.Plugin.MongoStorage.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.MongoStorage/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.AzureOpenAI/BotSharp.Plugin.AzureOpenAI.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.AzureOpenAI/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.HuggingFace/BotSharp.Plugin.HuggingFace.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.HuggingFace/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.KnowledgeBase/BotSharp.Plugin.KnowledgeBase.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.KnowledgeBase/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.MetaAI/BotSharp.Plugin.MetaAI.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.MetaAI/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.MetaMessenger/BotSharp.Plugin.MetaMessenger.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.MetaMessenger/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Qdrant/BotSharp.Plugin.Qdrant.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Qdrant/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.TelegramBots/BotSharp.Plugin.TelegramBots.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.TelegramBots/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.HttpHandler/BotSharp.Plugin.HttpHandler.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.HttpHandler/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.LLamaSharp/BotSharp.Plugin.LLamaSharp.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.LLamaSharp/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver/"]
+COPY ["src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver.csproj", "src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver/"]
+RUN dotnet restore "./src/WebStarter/./WebStarter.csproj"
+COPY . .
+WORKDIR "/src/src/WebStarter"
+RUN dotnet build "./WebStarter.csproj" -c $BUILD_CONFIGURATION -o /app/build /p:SolutionName=BotSharp
+
+FROM build AS publish
+ARG BUILD_CONFIGURATION=Release
+RUN dotnet publish "./WebStarter.csproj" -c $BUILD_CONFIGURATION -o /app/publish /p:UseAppHost=false /p:SolutionName=BotSharp
+
+FROM base AS final
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=publish /app/publish .
+ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "WebStarter.dll"]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.OpenAPI/BotSharp.OpenAPI.csproj b/src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.OpenAPI/BotSharp.OpenAPI.csproj
index 70c391ee..3223688a 100644
--- a/src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.OpenAPI/BotSharp.OpenAPI.csproj
+++ b/src/Infrastructure/BotSharp.OpenAPI/BotSharp.OpenAPI.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <LangVersion>$(LangVersion)</LangVersion>
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
   
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core" Version="2.2.5" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer" Version="6.0.25" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer" Version="8.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Swashbuckle.AspNetCore" Version="6.5.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices.Extensions" Version="6.0.26" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices.Extensions" Version="8.0.1" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub.csproj
index 04d9b8fd..af5b2146 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatHub.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <LangVersion>$(LangVersion)</LangVersion>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI.csproj
index 9e83b9a8..8f70adb1 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI/BotSharp.Plugin.ChatbotUI.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <LangVersion>$(LangVersion)</LangVersion>
     <VersionPrefix>$(BotSharpVersion)</VersionPrefix>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp.csproj
index fe8739a4..d6c862d4 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp/BotSharp.Plugin.PaddleSharp.csproj
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Docnet.Core" Version="2.7.0-alpha.1" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU" Version="13.3.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Magick.NET.Core" Version="13.3.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="OpenCvSharp4.runtime.win" Version="4.7.0.20230115" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU" Version="13.5.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Magick.NET.Core" Version="13.5.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="OpenCvSharp4.runtime.win" Version="4.9.0.20240103" />
     <PackageReference Include="Sdcb.PaddleInference" Version="2.5.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Sdcb.PaddleInference.runtime.win64.mkl" Version="2.5.1" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Sdcb.PaddleOCR" Version="2.7.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Sdcb.PaddleOCR" Version="2.7.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Sdcb.PaddleOCR.Models.LocalV3" Version="2.7.0.1" />
-    <PackageReference Include="System.Drawing.Common" Version="8.0.0-preview.7.23375.5" />
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Drawing.Common" Version="8.0.1" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder.csproj
index 4bc9a6af..857154cf 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder/BotSharp.Plugin.RoutingSpeeder.csproj
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core" Version="2.2.5" />
-    <PackageReference Include="TensorFlow.Keras" Version="0.11.4" />
+    <PackageReference Include="TensorFlow.Keras" Version="0.15.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver.csproj
index 929d4d61..4f6f352c 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.SqlDriver.csproj
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Dapper" Version="2.1.21" />
-    <PackageReference Include="MySqlConnector" Version="2.3.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Dapper" Version="2.1.28" />
+    <PackageReference Include="MySqlConnector" Version="2.3.5" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio.csproj
index 3a09e780..de9ea799 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio/BotSharp.Plugin.Twilio.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
     <LangVersion>$(LangVersion)</LangVersion>
     <VersionPrefix>$(BotSharpVersion)</VersionPrefix>
     <GeneratePackageOnBuild>$(GeneratePackageOnBuild)</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="StrongGrid" Version="0.102.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="StrongGrid" Version="0.104.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Twilio.AspNet.Common" Version="8.0.2" />
     <PackageReference Include="Twilio.AspNet.Core" Version="8.0.2" />
   </ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat.csproj
index 1aff09b8..b2c19ae1 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat/BotSharp.Plugin.WeChat.csproj
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
   </ItemGroup>
   
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Senparc.Weixin.MP.Middleware" Version="0.8.6" />
-    <PackageReference Include="System.Threading.Channels" Version="7.0.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Senparc.Weixin.MP.Middleware" Version="1.1.1" />
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Threading.Channels" Version="8.0.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver.csproj b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver.csproj
index d78a7e12..205f32bf 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver.csproj
+++ b/src/Plugins/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver/BotSharp.Plugin.WebDriver.csproj
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Playwright" Version="1.39.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Playwright" Version="1.41.1" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/WebStarter/WebStarter.csproj b/src/WebStarter/WebStarter.csproj
index a4d90290..dec41bfb 100644
--- a/src/WebStarter/WebStarter.csproj
+++ b/src/WebStarter/WebStarter.csproj
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <AspNetCoreHostingModel>OutOfProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>
     <UserSecretsId>4fb8c9df-7975-4926-ba73-46c8ca440691</UserSecretsId>
+    <ContainerRepository>botsharpwebapi</ContainerRepository>
+    <DockerDefaultTargetOS>Linux</DockerDefaultTargetOS>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup Condition="$(SolutionName)==PizzaBot">
@@ -25,11 +27,11 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Containers.Tools.Targets" Version="1.19.6" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup>
+  <!--<ItemGroup>
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\tests\BotSharp.Plugin.PizzaBot\BotSharp.Plugin.PizzaBot.csproj" />
-  </ItemGroup>
+  </ItemGroup>-->
   
-  <ItemGroup Condition="$(SolutionName)==BotSharp">
+  <ItemGroup>
     <ProjectReference Include="..\Infrastructure\BotSharp.Core\BotSharp.Core.csproj" />
     <ProjectReference Include="..\Infrastructure\BotSharp.Logger\BotSharp.Logger.csproj" />
     <ProjectReference Include="..\Infrastructure\BotSharp.OpenAPI\BotSharp.OpenAPI.csproj" />
diff --git a/src/WebStarter/appsettings.json b/src/WebStarter/appsettings.json
index 66b92dc0..2f240b10 100644
--- a/src/WebStarter/appsettings.json
+++ b/src/WebStarter/appsettings.json
@@ -19,16 +19,16 @@
       "Models": [
         {
           "Name": "gpt-35-turbo",
-          "ApiKey": "",
-          "Endpoint": "https://gpt-35-turbo.openai.azure.com/",
+          "ApiKey": "c1cee6ddfb3d4f469587789efe7a2ba9",
+          "Endpoint": "https://ai4c-demo.openai.azure.com/",
           "Type": "chat",
           "PromptCost": 0.0015,
           "CompletionCost": 0.002
         },
         {
-          "Name": "gpt-35-turbo-instruct",
-          "ApiKey": "",
-          "Endpoint": "https://gpt-35-turbo-instruct.openai.azure.com/",
+          "Name": "gpt-35-turbo",
+          "ApiKey": "c1cee6ddfb3d4f469587789efe7a2ba9",
+          "Endpoint": "https://ai4c-demo.openai.azure.com/",
           "Type": "text",
           "PromptCost": 0.0015,
           "CompletionCost": 0.002
diff --git a/tests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests.csproj b/tests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests.csproj
index 81e6d3b6..32781e0f 100644
--- a/tests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests.csproj
+++ b/tests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests/BotSharp.Plugin.SemanticKernel.UnitTests.csproj
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration" Version="8.0.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection" Version="8.0.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="17.8.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel" Version="1.0.0-beta6" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel" Version="1.1.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Moq" Version="4.20.70" />
-    <PackageReference Include="xunit" Version="2.6.4" />
+    <PackageReference Include="xunit" Version="2.6.6" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" Version="2.5.6">
       <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
       <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>