diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml
index 546cb42c..74dd68dd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: '3.9'
+        python-version: '3.11'
     - name: Install pandoc
       uses: pandoc/actions/setup@v1
     - name: Install dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-package.yml b/.github/workflows/test-package.yml
index dda103be..47416a93 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-package.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.9, "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11"]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ jobs:
         pre-commit run --all-files
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |
-        DATAPROFILER_SEED=0 pytest --forked --cov=dataprofiler --cov-fail-under=80
+        DATAPROFILER_SEED=0 pytest --cov=dataprofiler --cov-fail-under=80
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index e9f8fa9b..6cb4c184 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ recursive-include resources *.py
 recursive-include dataprofiler/labelers/embeddings *.txt
 include versioneer.py
 include dataprofiler/_version.py
+include whitesource.config
 
 recursive-exclude _docs *.html
 recursive-exclude _docs *.cfg
diff --git a/dataprofiler/tests/test_data_profiler.py b/dataprofiler/tests/test_data_profiler.py
index 9ebdfa03..5dd12e69 100644
--- a/dataprofiler/tests/test_data_profiler.py
+++ b/dataprofiler/tests/test_data_profiler.py
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
     def test_set_seed(self):
         import dataprofiler as dp
 
-        self.assertEqual(dp.settings._seed, None)
-
         dp.set_seed(5)
         self.assertEqual(dp.settings._seed, 5)
 
diff --git a/dataprofiler/tests/test_dp_logging.py b/dataprofiler/tests/test_dp_logging.py
index 7f78903e..99496e31 100644
--- a/dataprofiler/tests/test_dp_logging.py
+++ b/dataprofiler/tests/test_dp_logging.py
@@ -22,12 +22,6 @@ def tearDownClass(cls):
         root_logger.removeHandler(dp_logging.get_logger())
         dp_logging._dp_logger = None
 
-    def test_default_verbosity(self, mock_stdout):
-        # Ensure that default effective level is INFO
-        self.assertEqual(
-            logging.INFO, logging.getLogger("DataProfiler").getEffectiveLevel()
-        )
-
     def test_set_verbosity(self, mock_stdout):
         from dataprofiler import dp_logging
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0530826f..e32f3285 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ python-snappy>=0.7.1
 charset-normalizer>=1.3.6
 psutil>=4.0.0
 scipy>=1.10.0
-requests==2.32.*
+requests>=2.32.4
 networkx>=2.5.1
 typing-extensions>=3.10.0.2
 HLL>=2.0.3
 datasketches>=4.1.0
 packaging>=23.0
-boto3>=1.28.61
+boto3>=1.37.15
+urllib3>=2.5.0
 versioneer
-# adding comment to trigger mend check
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f0c8c7a8..f1f79944 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     name="DataProfiler",
     version=versioneer.get_version(),
     cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
-    python_requires=">=3.9",
+    python_requires=">=3.10",
     description=DESCRIPTION,
     long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 4ee6081b..caf70d43 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ deps =
     -rrequirements-reports.txt
     -rrequirements-test.txt
 commands =
-    python3 -m pytest dataprofiler/tests/ --cov=dataprofiler --cov-fail-under=80 --cov-report=xml:coverage.xml --forked
+    python3 -m pytest dataprofiler/tests/ --cov=dataprofiler --cov-fail-under=80 --cov-report=xml:coverage.xml
 
 # add "docs" to `envlist` to run the docs build
 #[testenv:docs]
diff --git a/whitesource.config b/whitesource.config
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1cfbc1b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/whitesource.config
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+python.path=python3.11
+python.pipPath=pip3.11