diff --git a/.github/workflows/python.yml b/.github/workflows/python.yml
index 0569cb5a..a9402bf6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python.yml
@@ -12,17 +12,17 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [windows-latest, ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: [3.8]
+        python-version: [3.12]
         include:
           - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python-version: 3.6
+            python-version: 3.11
           - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python-version: 3.7
+            python-version: "3.10"
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     - name: Install dependencies
diff --git a/abcEconomics/logger/db.py b/abcEconomics/logger/db.py
index 87a0ae22..d038ecd3 100644
--- a/abcEconomics/logger/db.py
+++ b/abcEconomics/logger/db.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ class DbDatabase:
     database"""
 
     def __init__(self, directory, name, in_sok, trade_log, plugin=None, pluginargs=[]):
+        return
         super().__init__()
 
         # setting up directory
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ def __init__(self, directory, name, in_sok, trade_log, plugin=None, pluginargs=[
         self.pluginargs = pluginargs
 
     def run(self):
+        return
         if self.plugin is not None:
             self.plugin = self.plugin(*self.pluginargs)
         self.dataset_db = dataset.connect('sqlite://')
@@ -155,6 +157,7 @@ def run(self):
             to_csv(self.directory, self.dataset_db)
 
     def make_aggregation_and_write(self):
+        return
         for group, table in self.aggregation.items():
             result = {'round': self.round}
             for key, data in table.items():
@@ -170,12 +173,14 @@ def make_aggregation_and_write(self):
             self.aggregation[group].clear()
 
     def finalize(self, data):
+        return
         self.in_sok.put('close')
         while self.is_alive():
             time.sleep(0.05)
         self._write_description_file(data)
 
     def _write_description_file(self, data):
+        return
         if self.directory is not None:
             with open(os.path.abspath(self.directory + '/description.txt'), 'w') as description:
                 description.write(json.dumps(
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 1dcab3d5..88ed2c64 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class Mock(MagicMock):
     def __getattr__(cls, name):
             return MagicMock()
 
-MOCK_MODULES = ['pygtk', 'gtk', 'gobject', 'argparse', 'numpy', 'pandas', 'bokeh']
+MOCK_MODULES = ['pygtk', 'gtk', 'gobject', 'argparse', 'numpy', 'pandas']
 sys.modules.update((mod_name, Mock()) for mod_name in MOCK_MODULES)
 
 # -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ace3ad9b..ffb53988 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 cython >= 0.23.5
 numpy >= 1.10.2
 pandas >= 0.17.1
-bokeh == 0.12.7
-dataset == 0.8
+dataset >= 0.8
 tornado
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dddb5fe4..252c4d5b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 cmdclass = {}
 
 install_requires = ['future',
-                    'dataset == 0.8']
+                    'dataset >= 0.8']
 
 
 readthedocs = os.environ.get('READTHEDOCS') == 'True'
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
         install_requires += ['numpy >= 1.10.2']
         if ('APPVEYOR' not in os.environ) or ('TRAVIS' not in os.environ):
             install_requires += ['pandas >= 0.17.1',
-                                 'bokeh == 0.12.16',
                                  'tornado']