diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 9aaf7ce3c..ea427606e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 Added tenacity requirement at 9.0.0
 Update lxml requirement to 5.3.0
 Update pillow requirement to 10.4.0
-Update PlexAPI requirement to 4.15.15
+Update PlexAPI requirement to 4.15.16
 Update psutil requirement to 6.0.0
-Update setuptools requirement to 72.1.0
+Update setuptools requirement to 73.0.1
 
 # Removed Features
 
diff --git a/modules/config.py b/modules/config.py
index 9eb638d09..ada7e14af 100644
--- a/modules/config.py
+++ b/modules/config.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ def check_next(next_data):
                 if str(next_data).startswith("<<") and str(next_data).endswith(">>"):
                     return None
                 return next_data
-        check_next(self.data)
+        self.data = check_next(self.data)
 
         def check_for_attribute(data, attribute, parent=None, test_list=None, translations=None, default=None, do_print=True, default_is_none=False, req_default=False, var_type="str", throw=False, save=True, int_min=0, int_max=None):
             endline = ""
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 59ab4b62a..26857fe17 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ lxml==5.3.0
 num2words==0.5.13
 pathvalidate==3.2.0
 pillow==10.4.0
-PlexAPI==4.15.15
+PlexAPI==4.15.16
 psutil==6.0.0
 python-dotenv==1.0.1
 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ requests==2.32.3
 tenacity==9.0.0
 ruamel.yaml==0.18.6
 schedule==1.2.2
-setuptools==72.2.0
+setuptools==73.0.1
 tmdbapis==1.2.16
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