diff --git a/.github/workflows/testing.yml b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
index 2403f9eed..b3af58d70 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/testing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-    - name: Set up Python 3.7
+    - name: Set up Python 3.8
       uses: actions/setup-python@v3
       with:
-        python-version: 3.7
+        python-version: 3.8
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ jobs:
         flake8 --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=20 --statistics src/maggma
 
   test:
+    needs: lint
     services:
       local_mongodb:
         image: mongo:4.0
@@ -58,12 +59,12 @@ jobs:
       max-parallel: 6
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       uses: actions/setup-python@v3
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v3
       with:
diff --git a/requirements-optional.txt b/requirements-optional.txt
index c788d33c9..a01f91401 100644
--- a/requirements-optional.txt
+++ b/requirements-optional.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-uvicorn==0.13.4
+uvicorn==0.17.5
 hvac==0.11.2
-IPython==7.16.1;python_version<"3.7"
 IPython==7.31.1;python_version>"3.6"
 nbformat==5.1.3
 regex==2022.1.18
diff --git a/requirements-testing.txt b/requirements-testing.txt
index 2b1177bdd..4d57f18f4 100644
--- a/requirements-testing.txt
+++ b/requirements-testing.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 pre-commit==2.17.0
 pytest==7.0.0
-pytest-asyncio==0.15.1
+pytest-asyncio==0.18.2
 pytest-cov==3.0.0
 pytest-mock==3.5.1
 pytest-xdist==2.5.0
 moto==3.0.2
 pydocstyle==6.1.1
 flake8==4.0.1
-mypy==0.812
+mypy==0.931
 mypy-extensions==0.4.3
+responses<=0.18.0
+types-PyYAML==6.0.4
+types-setuptools==57.4.9
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3b6d384ac..952d5bcc2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ mongogrant==0.3.3
 aioitertools==0.9.0
 pydantic==1.9.0
 fastapi==0.73.0
-numpy==1.19.5;python_version<"3.7"
 numpy==1.21.0;python_version>"3.6"
 pyzmq==22.3.0
 dnspython==2.1.0
@@ -16,5 +15,5 @@ uvicorn==0.13.4
 sshtunnel==0.4.0
 msgpack==1.0.3
 msgpack-python==0.5.6
-orjson==3.6.0
+orjson==3.6.7
 boto3==1.20.46
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2d1db39a4..61f068bbb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         "sshtunnel>=0.1.5",
         "msgpack>=0.5.6",
         "orjson>=3.6.0",
-        "boto3>=1.20.41"
+        "boto3>=1.20.41",
     ],
     extras_require={
         "vault": ["hvac>=0.9.5"],
@@ -64,5 +64,5 @@
     ],
     entry_points={"console_scripts": ["mrun = maggma.cli:run"]},
     tests_require=["pytest"],
-    python_requires=">=3.6",
+    python_requires=">=3.7",
 )