diff --git a/.copier-answers.yml b/.copier-answers.yml
index 67a876e..222ba68 100644
--- a/.copier-answers.yml
+++ b/.copier-answers.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changes here will be overwritten by Copier
 
-_commit: 0.1.55
+_commit: 0.1.66
 _src_path: git@bbpgitlab.epfl.ch:neuromath/python-template.git
 author_name: Blue Brain Project, EPFL
 copyright_license: Apache License 2.0
diff --git a/.github/workflows/commitlint.yml b/.github/workflows/commitlint.yml
index 0adb8fc..14a08fc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/commitlint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/commitlint.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ jobs:
   check-pr-title:
     name: Check PR title
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      PR_TITLE: ${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -16,4 +18,4 @@ jobs:
       - run: npm install -g --force commitlint @commitlint/cli commitlint-plugin-cleanfeet
       - run: npm install conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits
       - run: touch .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
-      - run: echo "${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}" | commitlint
+      - run: echo "$PR_TITLE" | commitlint
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-sdist.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-sdist.yml
index 85abdf9..362a947 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-sdist.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-sdist.yml
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Set up Python 3.8
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: "3.10"
       - name: Build a wheel and a source tarball
         run: |
           pip install setuptools>=42 build setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-tox.yml b/.github/workflows/run-tox.yml
index a22e09b..70e9c99 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-tox.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-tox.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
         min_versions: ["min_versions", "latest_versions"]
         exclude:
           - min_versions: "min_versions"
         include:
-          - python-version: "3.8"
+          - python-version: "3.9"
             min_versions: "min_versions"
 
     steps:
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
         pip install tox
         tox run -e min_versions
     - name: JUnit Report Action
-      uses: mikepenz/action-junit-report@v4
+      uses: mikepenz/action-junit-report@v5
       if: always() # always run even if the previous step fails
       with:
         report_paths: 'reports/pytest-*.xml'
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 6fa9e94..6e8187f 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-default_language_version:
-  python: python3.8
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.4.0
+    rev: v5.0.0
     hooks:
       - id: check-added-large-files
       - id: check-case-conflict
@@ -13,22 +11,22 @@ repos:
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
       - id: trailing-whitespace
   - repo: https://github.com/alessandrojcm/commitlint-pre-commit-hook
-    rev: v9.5.0
+    rev: v9.18.0
     hooks:
         - id: commitlint
           stages:
             - commit-msg
           additional_dependencies: ['conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits']
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
-    rev: 5.12.0
+    rev: 5.13.2
     hooks:
       - id: isort
   - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 23.9.1
+    rev: 24.10.0
     hooks:
       - id: black
   - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
-    rev: v2.2.5
+    rev: v2.3.0
     hooks:
       - id: codespell
         args: ["-x", ".codespellignorelines"]
@@ -38,6 +36,6 @@ repos:
       - id: pydocstyle
         additional_dependencies: ["tomli"]
   - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-    rev: 6.1.0
+    rev: 7.1.1
     hooks:
       - id: flake8
diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 62a6d26..3b4185e 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ disable=
 	fixme,
 	invalid-name,
 	len-as-condition,
-	no-else-return
+	no-else-return,
+	too-many-positional-arguments
 
 [FORMAT]
 # Regexp for a line that is allowed to be longer than the limit.
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index c51d15e..91cce21 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 version: 2
 
 build:
-  os: ubuntu-20.04
+  os: ubuntu-22.04
   tools:
-    python: "3.9"
+    python: "3.11"
 
 sphinx:
   configuration: docs/source/conf.py
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index fff4259..f89530a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ When you wish to contribute to the code base, please consider the following guid
   or
 
   ```shell
-  tox -e py38 -e lint -e docs -e check-packaging
+  tox run -e py39,lint,docs,check-packaging
   ```
 
 * Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message.
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index e5d275b..8812673 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
-project = "BluePyParallel"
+project_name = "BluePyParallel"
+package_name = "BluePyParallel"
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = metadata.version("BluePyParallel")
+version = metadata.version(package_name)
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
 release = version
@@ -76,10 +77,10 @@
 # html_static_path = ['_static']
 
 html_theme_options = {
-    "metadata_distribution": "BluePyParallel",
+    "metadata_distribution": package_name,
 }
 
-html_title = project
+html_title = project_name
 
 # If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
 html_show_sourcelink = False
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a8775e6..4a07da8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,14 +5,13 @@ authors = [
 ]
 description = "Provides an embarrassingly parallel tool with sql backend."
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 license = { text = "Apache License 2.0" }
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
     "Intended Audience :: Developers",
     "Programming Language :: Python",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
@@ -45,8 +44,8 @@ test = [
     "packaging>=20",
     "pytest>=6.1",
     "pytest-benchmark>=3.4",
-    "pytest-cov>=3",
-    "pytest-html>=3.1",
+    "pytest-cov>=4.1",
+    "pytest-html>=3.2",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
@@ -69,10 +68,10 @@ include = ["bluepyparallel*"]
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 100
 target-version = [
-    "py38",
     "py39",
     "py310",
     "py311",
+    "py312",
 ]
 
 [tool.pydocstyle]
diff --git a/tests/test_parallel.py b/tests/test_parallel.py
index 0fce54f..450f9da 100644
--- a/tests/test_parallel.py
+++ b/tests/test_parallel.py
@@ -60,10 +60,11 @@ def dict_data():
 def data(request, int_data, dict_data):
     """Fixture for simple data depending of the type (range or dict)."""
     if request.param == "range":
-        values = deepcopy(int_data), _evaluation_function_range
+        return deepcopy(int_data), _evaluation_function_range
     elif request.param == "dict":
-        values = deepcopy(dict_data), _evaluation_function_dict
-    return values
+        return deepcopy(dict_data), _evaluation_function_dict
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Unknown value '{request.param}'")
 
 
 def expected_results(data, func, *args, **kwargs):
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 37d25ac..1d11fa2 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ envlist =
     lint
     docs
     min_versions
-    py{38,39,310,311}
+    py{39,310,311,312}
     coverage
 
 minversion = 3.18
@@ -19,15 +19,10 @@ allowlist_externals =
 extras = test
 setenv =
     COVERAGE_FILE = {env:COVERAGE_FILE:.coverage-{envname}}
-deps =
-    min_versions: Requirements-Builder
 commands_pre =
-    min_versions: requirements-builder --level=min --extras=test -o {envtmpdir}/requirements_min.txt setup.py
-    min_versions: pip install -r {envtmpdir}/requirements_min.txt
-    min_versions: pip freeze
+commands =
     - ipcluster stop --cluster-id={[base]name}_{envname} --signal 9 --debug
     ipcluster start -n 2 --daemonize --log-to-file --cluster-id={[base]name}_{envname} --debug
-commands =
     pytest \
         --basetemp={envtmpdir} \
         --cov={[base]name} \
@@ -40,10 +35,11 @@ commands =
         --html reports/pytest-{envname}.html \
         --junit-xml=reports/pytest-{envname}.xml \
         --self-contained-html \
+        --durations 10 \
+        --durations-min=2.0 \
         --benchmark-skip \
         -k "not TestBenchmark" \
         {posargs}
-commands_post =
     - ipcluster stop --cluster-id={[base]name}_{envname} --signal 9 --debug
 
 [testenv:coverage]
@@ -69,10 +65,16 @@ commands_pre =
 commands_post =
 
 [testenv:min_versions]
-basepython = python3.8
+basepython = python3.9
+deps =
+    Requirements-Builder
+commands_pre =
+    requirements-builder --level=min --extras=test -o {envtmpdir}/requirements_min.txt setup.py
+    pip install -r {envtmpdir}/requirements_min.txt
+    pip freeze
 
 [testenv:lint]
-basepython = python3.8
+basepython = python3.9
 deps =
     pre-commit
     pylint
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ commands_pre =
 commands_post =
 
 [testenv:format]
-basepython = python3.8
+basepython = python3.9
 skip_install = true
 deps =
     codespell
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ commands_post =
 
 [gh-actions]
 python =
-  3.8: py38, lint
-  3.9: py39, docs
+  3.9: py39, lint
   3.10: py310, check-packaging
-  3.11: py311
+  3.11: py311, docs
+  3.12: py312