diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index 90cfbdd935..1f09a0c724 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:2.7.0"
     implementation "androidx.work:work-runtime:$workRuntime"
     implementation "androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx:$workRuntime"
-    implementation "androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx:1.6.2"
+    implementation "androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx:1.7.1"
     implementation 'com.github.albfernandez:juniversalchardet:2.0.3' // need this version for Android <7
     compileOnly 'com.google.code.findbugs:annotations:3.0.1u2'
     implementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.16.1'
diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
index eaf270743f..ee1cfee32d 100644
--- a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
+++ b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@
          </trusted-key>
          <trusted-key id="A42FEF087AF29AE864684EAEE6039456D5BBD4F8" group="io.fabric8" name="kubernetes-client-bom" version="5.12.4"/>
          <trusted-key id="A5BD02B93E7A40482EB1D66A5F69AD087600B22C" group="org.ow2.asm"/>
-         <trusted-key id="A5F483CD733A4EBAEA378B2AE88979FB9B30ACF2" group="^androidx[.]compose($|([.].*))" regex="true"/>
+         <trusted-key id="A5F483CD733A4EBAEA378B2AE88979FB9B30ACF2">
+            <trusting group="androidx.fragment"/>
+            <trusting group="^androidx[.]compose($|([.].*))" regex="true"/>
+         </trusted-key>
          <trusted-key id="A6D6C97108B8585F91B158748671A8DF71296252" group="^com[.]squareup($|([.].*))" regex="true"/>
          <trusted-key id="A7892505CF1A58076453E52D7999BEFBA1039E8B" group="net.bytebuddy"/>
          <trusted-key id="A9789342F598AD5B1175EF357EB97D110DFADD60" group="com.googlecode.concurrent-trees" name="concurrent-trees" version="2.6.1"/>
@@ -1597,6 +1600,11 @@
             <sha256 value="df7ba73f377dbd7ccd28b112afd08d28b60ec2c6bc91ec658609c845442ace08" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="androidx.fragment" name="fragment" version="1.7.1">
+         <artifact name="fragment-1.7.1.aar">
+            <sha256 value="7ddebe9d830a04963733dcb340cab4bac1e69dfca797a6d59aa7bc56282150af" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="androidx.fragment" name="fragment-ktx" version="1.3.2">
          <artifact name="fragment-ktx-1.3.2.aar">
             <sha256 value="29af1e9ee0e93b5fc638600c230705584aecc49205c363f0923ba1e5be675533" origin="Generated by Gradle" reason="Artifact is not signed"/>