diff --git a/framework/codemodder-base/src/test/java/io/codemodder/CLITest.java b/framework/codemodder-base/src/test/java/io/codemodder/CLITest.java
index ee83b0d08..399a8cace 100644
--- a/framework/codemodder-base/src/test/java/io/codemodder/CLITest.java
+++ b/framework/codemodder-base/src/test/java/io/codemodder/CLITest.java
@@ -125,14 +125,6 @@ void it_captures_console_output() {
     assertThat(stderrWriter.toString()).startsWith("Unknown option: '--bogus'");
   }
 
-  @Test
-  void structured_appender_works_with_project_name() throws IOException {
-    Path outputFile = Files.createTempFile("codemodder", ".out");
-    writeLogMessageToFile(outputFile, "cloud9");
-    String output = Files.readString(outputFile);
-    assertThat(output).contains("\"project_name\":\"cloud9\"");
-  }
-
   @Test
   void structured_appender_works_without_project_name() throws IOException {
     Path outputFile = Files.createTempFile("codemodder", ".out");
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 64e10757f..bf2c42fa0 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ java-security-toolkit-xstream = "1.0.2"
 javax-inject = "1"
 jtokkit = "1.1.0"
 commons-jexl = "3.2.1"
-logback = "1.4.5"
+logback = "1.5.18"
 maven = "3.8.7"
 openai = "0.14.0"
 picocli = "4.7.0"