diff --git a/.github/workflows/check_ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/check_ci.yaml
index 83d9c826..dbe9ecb5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check_ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check_ci.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   run_unit_tests:
-    environment: AWS
+    environment: AWS_CI_TESTS
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: ./.github/actions/prepare_poetry_env
 
      - name: Run pytest
-       run: poetry run pytest
+       run: poetry run pytest test/test_install_dependencies.py
        env: # Set the secret as an env variable
           AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
           AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_release.yml b/.github/workflows/test_release.yml
index e19c24f2..dcfda8cb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_release.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
 
   build_and_upload:
-    environment: AWS
+    environment: AWS_CI_TESTS
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b23f3872..9ce84085 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .idea
 .pytest_cache
 dist
-__pycache__/
\ No newline at end of file
+__pycache__/
+/TAGS
diff --git a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/docker/defaults/main.yml b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/docker/defaults/main.yml
index b4ce6dfc..3557f659 100644
--- a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/docker/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/docker/defaults/main.yml
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 apt_dependencies:
   - apt-transport-https=2.0.9
   - ca-certificates=20230311ubuntu0.20.04.1
-  - software-properties-common=0.99.9.11
+  - software-properties-common=0.99.9.12
diff --git a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/files/requirements_jupyter.txt b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/files/requirements_jupyter.txt
index a2d54b30..be394f3d 100644
--- a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/files/requirements_jupyter.txt
+++ b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/files/requirements_jupyter.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-jupyterlab==3.4.3
+jupyterlab==4.0.6
 # enable interactive Javascript widgets in the notebooks
-ipywidgets==7.7.1
+ipywidgets==8.1.1
 pexpect==4.8.0
 pyexasol==0.16.1
diff --git a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/tasks/jupyterlab.yml b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/tasks/jupyterlab.yml
index bce78c75..2975bf42 100644
--- a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/tasks/jupyterlab.yml
+++ b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/jupyter/tasks/jupyterlab.yml
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 ---
 
-- name: Enable the ipywidgets extension
-  ansible.builtin.command: >
-    "{{jupyterlab.virtualenv}}/bin/jupyter" nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
-
 # because the generate-config command below never overwrites an existing file
 - name: Delete existing JupyterLab config file
   ansible.builtin.file:
     path: "{{ jupyterlab.config }}"
-    state: absent 
+    state: absent
 
 # this generates /root/.jupyter/jupyter_lab_config.py (it has all rows commented out)
 # this config file is very large (>30K)
diff --git a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/poetry/defaults/main.yml b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/poetry/defaults/main.yml
index ac137f31..4570f7e5 100644
--- a/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/poetry/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/exasol_script_languages_developer_sandbox/runtime/ansible/roles/poetry/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 
 apt_dependencies:
-  - curl=7.68.0-1ubuntu2.18
+  - curl=7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19
   - python3.8-venv=3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.8
   - python3-pip=20.0.2-5ubuntu1.9