diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 710440b..170c64d 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
    :url  "https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html"}
 
   :dependencies
-  [[com.taoensso/encore    "3.91.0"]
-   [org.clj-commons/pretty "2.3.0"]]
+  [[com.taoensso/encore "3.98.0-RC8"]]
 
   :test-paths ["test" #_"src"]
 
@@ -46,10 +45,11 @@
     [[org.clojure/test.check              "1.1.1"]
      [org.clojure/tools.logging           "1.3.0"]
      [org.slf4j/slf4j-api                "2.0.12"]
-     [com.taoensso/slf4j-telemere        "1.0.0-alpha1"]
+     [com.taoensso/slf4j-telemere  "1.0.0-alpha1"]
      ;; [org.slf4j/slf4j-simple          "2.0.12"]
      ;; [org.slf4j/slf4j-nop             "2.0.12"]
-     [io.opentelemetry/opentelemetry-api "1.36.0"]]
+     [io.opentelemetry/opentelemetry-api "1.36.0"]
+     [metosin/jsonista                    "0.3.8"]]
 
     :plugins
     [[lein-pprint                     "1.3.2"]
diff --git a/shadow-cljs.edn b/shadow-cljs.edn
index 4f86e85..b6048f1 100644
--- a/shadow-cljs.edn
+++ b/shadow-cljs.edn
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {;;:lein true
  :source-paths ["src" "test"]
  :dependencies
- [[com.taoensso/encore "3.98.0-SNAPSHOT"]
+ [[com.taoensso/encore "3.98.0-RC8"]
   [cider/cider-nrepl   "0.47.0"]
   [binaryage/devtools  "1.0.7"]]
 
diff --git a/src/taoensso/telemere.cljc b/src/taoensso/telemere.cljc
index 6b691b4..cb06f51 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/telemere.cljc
+++ b/src/taoensso/telemere.cljc
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
   (remove-ns 'taoensso.telemere)
   (:api (enc/interns-overview)))
 
-(enc/assert-min-encore-version [3 91 0])
+(enc/assert-min-encore-version [3 98 0])
 
 ;;;; TODO
 ;; - File   handler (with rotating, rolling, etc.)