diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 7820bc82..bf1a4f6e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-    - name: Set up Python 3.10
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+    - name: Set up Python 3.11
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: "3.10"
+        python-version: "3.11"
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index 42341687..cec24227 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-    - name: Set up Python 3.10
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python 3.11
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: "3.10"
+        python-version: "3.11"
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
         "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/build.sh"
         cp -r "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/build/" ${{ runner.temp }}/
 
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         ref: 'gh-pages'
 
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index ea6a60d6..5d5c47ee 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -3,20 +3,10 @@ ci:
     autoupdate_schedule: quarterly
 
 repos:
-  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 24.3.0
-    hooks:
-      - id: black
-        language_version: python3 # Should be a command that runs python3.6+
-
-  - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-    rev: '7.0.0'
-    hooks:
-    - id: flake8
-      args: [--count, --show-source, --statistics]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: 'v4.5.0'
+    rev: 'v4.6.0'
     hooks:
+    - id: check-yaml
     - id: pretty-format-json
       args: [--autofix, --no-ensure-ascii, --indent=4, --top-keys, '$schema,$id,type,properties']
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 756b687f..8f7b3ac5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # AiiDAlab Application Registry
 
-This repository contains the **database** of the official App registry for [AiiDAlab](https://www.materialscloud.org/aiidalab).
+This repository contains the **database** of the official App registry for [AiiDAlab](https://aiidalab.net).
 
 <p align="center">
  <a href="http://aiidalab.github.io/aiidalab-registry" rel="Go to AiiDAlab app registry">
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ This repository contains the **database** of the official App registry for [AiiD
 
 ## How to add an app to the registry
 
-Simply propose a change to the [apps.yaml](https://github.com/aiidalab/aiidalab-registry/blob/master/apps.yaml) file in this repository and add an entry for your app, for example:
+Propose a change to the [apps.yaml](https://github.com/aiidalab/aiidalab-registry/blob/master/apps.yaml) file in this repository and add an entry for your app, for example:
 
 ```yaml
 hello-world:
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Please see the [AiiDAlab documentation](https://aiidalab.readthedocs.io/en/lates
 
 ## Information for maintainers
 
-To generate the website, simply execute the following script:
+To generate the website, execute the following script:
 
 ```console
 $ ./build.sh
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ To manually trigger the CI workflow to deploy the registry, go to the [Actions t
 
 ## Acknowledgements
 
-This work is supported by the [MARVEL National Centre for Competency in Research](<http://nccr-marvel.ch>) funded by the [Swiss National Science Foundation](<http://www.snf.ch/en>),
+This work is supported by the [MARVEL National Centre for Competency in Research](https://nccr-marvel.ch/) funded by the [Swiss National Science Foundation](https://www.snf.ch/en),
 the MARKETPLACE project funded by [Horizon 2020](https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/) under the H2020-NMBP-25-2017 call (Grant No. 760173),
 as well as by
-the [MaX European Centre of Excellence](<http://www.max-centre.eu/>) funded by the Horizon 2020 EINFRA-5 program (Grant No. 676598).
+the [MaX European Centre of Excellence](https://www.max-centre.eu/) funded by the Horizon 2020 EINFRA-5 program (Grant No. 676598).
 
 <div style="text-align:center">
  <img src="src/static/static/img/MARVEL.png" alt="MARVEL" height="100px">
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 48f03a91..c4229483 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-aiidalab==23.3.1
-pre-commit==3.6.0
-packaging<22
\ No newline at end of file
+aiidalab[registry]==24.9.0
+pre-commit>=3.6.0
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 744950cd..00000000
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[flake8]
-# Adapted from: https://github.com/CasperWA/voila-optimade-client
-ignore =
-    E501  # Line length handled by black.
-    W503  # Line break before binary operator, preferred formatting for black.
-    E203  # Whitespace before ':', preferred formatting for black.