diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 8a64e772..d4a139ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -7,15 +7,21 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: '3.11.4' 
-          cache: 'pip'
+          python-version: '3.12.3' 
       - name: Install python dependencies
         run: |
-         sudo apt-get update
-         sudo apt-get install -y python3-setuptools python3-virtualenv python3-pip
-         pip install --upgrade pip
-         make install-python
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y \
+              python3-setuptools \
+              python3-virtualenv \
+              python3-pip \
+              libxml2-dev \
+              libxslt-dev 
+
+          pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install --upgrade setuptools
+          make install-python
       - name: Test
         run: make test
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 095193da..fe5deb42 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ grpcio_status
 grpcio
 gspread
 gunicorn
+lxml
 networkx
 nltk
 oauthlib
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ python-dotenv
 python-frontmatter
 python-markdown-maker
 python-slugify
-PyYAML
+PyYAML==6.0.1
 regex
 requests
 requests-oauthlib