diff --git a/.release-it.json b/.release-it.json
index 64724e33..86dc59ae 100644
--- a/.release-it.json
+++ b/.release-it.json
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "after:init": ["npm run lint", "npx knip", "npm test"]
   },
   "github": {
+    "tokenRef": "GITHUB_TOKEN_RELEASE_IT",
     "release": true,
     "comments": {
       "submit": true
diff --git a/lib/plugin/Plugin.js b/lib/plugin/Plugin.js
index 4fb667ae..64302534 100644
--- a/lib/plugin/Plugin.js
+++ b/lib/plugin/Plugin.js
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class Plugin {
   afterRelease() {}
 
   getContext(path) {
-    const context = Object.assign({}, this.options, this.context);
+    const context = _.merge({}, this.options, this.context);
     return path ? _.get(context, path) : context;
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/plugin/github/GitHub.js b/lib/plugin/github/GitHub.js
index b69a5350..3c22727d 100644
--- a/lib/plugin/github/GitHub.js
+++ b/lib/plugin/github/GitHub.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import mime from 'mime-types';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import retry from 'async-retry';
 import newGithubReleaseUrl from 'new-github-release-url';
-import ProxyAgent from 'proxy-agent';
+import { ProxyAgent } from 'proxy-agent';
 import { format, parseVersion, readJSON, e } from '../../util.js';
 import Release from '../GitRelease.js';
 import prompts from './prompts.js';
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8b2f4b1f..3c20b536 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "release-it",
-  "version": "15.10.3",
+  "version": "15.10.5",
   "description": "Generic CLI tool to automate versioning and package publishing-related tasks.",
   "keywords": [
     "build",
@@ -61,15 +61,15 @@
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": {
     "@iarna/toml": "2.2.5",
-    "@octokit/rest": "19.0.7",
+    "@octokit/rest": "19.0.11",
     "async-retry": "1.3.3",
     "chalk": "5.2.0",
     "cosmiconfig": "8.1.3",
     "execa": "7.1.1",
     "git-url-parse": "13.1.0",
     "globby": "13.1.4",
-    "got": "12.6.0",
-    "inquirer": "9.2.0",
+    "got": "12.6.1",
+    "inquirer": "9.2.6",
     "is-ci": "3.0.1",
     "issue-parser": "6.0.0",
     "lodash": "4.17.21",
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@
     "new-github-release-url": "2.0.0",
     "node-fetch": "3.3.1",
     "open": "9.1.0",
-    "ora": "6.3.0",
+    "ora": "6.3.1",
     "os-name": "5.1.0",
     "promise.allsettled": "1.0.6",
-    "proxy-agent": "5.0.0",
-    "semver": "7.5.0",
+    "proxy-agent": "6.2.1",
+    "semver": "7.5.1",
     "shelljs": "0.8.5",
     "update-notifier": "6.0.2",
     "url-join": "5.0.0",
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@octokit/request-error": "3.0.3",
-    "ava": "5.2.0",
-    "eslint": "8.39.0",
+    "ava": "5.3.0",
+    "eslint": "8.41.0",
     "eslint-config-prettier": "8.8.0",
     "eslint-plugin-ava": "14.0.0",
     "eslint-plugin-import": "2.27.5",
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
     "prettier": "2.8.8",
     "remark-cli": "11.0.0",
     "remark-preset-webpro": "0.0.2",
-    "sinon": "15.0.4",
-    "strip-ansi": "7.0.1"
+    "sinon": "15.1.0",
+    "strip-ansi": "7.1.0"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=14.9"