diff --git a/dhis-2/dhis-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/textpattern/TextPatternSegment.java b/dhis-2/dhis-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/textpattern/TextPatternSegment.java
index eb8e610e10c8..9d0c2c874fc2 100644
--- a/dhis-2/dhis-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/textpattern/TextPatternSegment.java
+++ b/dhis-2/dhis-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/textpattern/TextPatternSegment.java
@@ -32,13 +32,14 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlProperty;
+import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.Objects;
 import org.hisp.dhis.common.DxfNamespaces;
 
 /**
  * @author Stian Sandvold
  */
-public class TextPatternSegment {
+public class TextPatternSegment implements Serializable {
   private TextPatternMethod method;
 
   private String parameter;
diff --git a/dhis-2/pom.xml b/dhis-2/pom.xml
index 7216baf6cde3..eb93811b0f61 100644
--- a/dhis-2/pom.xml
+++ b/dhis-2/pom.xml
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
     <!--DBMS -->
     <flyway-database-postgresql.version>12.4.0</flyway-database-postgresql.version>
     <hibernate.version>5.6.15.Final</hibernate.version>
-    <ehcache3.version>3.10.8</ehcache3.version>
+    <ehcache3.version>3.12.0</ehcache3.version>
     <jaxb-runtime.version>4.0.7</jaxb-runtime.version>
     <hypersistence-utils.version>3.9.5</hypersistence-utils.version>
     <!-- Data sources,db pools and db drivers -->