diff --git a/ci/linux/_load_dot_env.sh b/ci/linux/_load_dot_env.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..434c067
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/linux/_load_dot_env.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -a
+source $1
+set +a
diff --git a/ci/linux/create_venv.sh b/ci/linux/create_venv.sh
index b6345ed..7fe9939 100755
--- a/ci/linux/create_venv.sh
+++ b/ci/linux/create_venv.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 
 python3.11 -m venv ./.venv
-. .venv/bin/activate
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" != "win32" && "$OSTYPE" != "msys" ]]; then
+  echo "Activating .venv first."
+  . .venv/bin/activate
+fi
 pip3 install pip-tools
diff --git a/ci/linux/install_dependencies.sh b/ci/linux/install_dependencies.sh
index 1dbaade..e00b897 100755
--- a/ci/linux/install_dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/linux/install_dependencies.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 if [[ "$OSTYPE" != "win32" && "$OSTYPE" != "msys" ]]; then
   echo "Activating .venv first."
diff --git a/ci/linux/lint.sh b/ci/linux/lint.sh
index 6605bf7..42f08eb 100755
--- a/ci/linux/lint.sh
+++ b/ci/linux/lint.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 if [[ "$OSTYPE" != "win32" && "$OSTYPE" != "msys" ]]; then
   echo "Activating .venv first."
   . .venv/bin/activate
 fi
+
 flake8 ./src/omotes_orchestrator ./unit_test/
diff --git a/ci/linux/test_unit.sh b/ci/linux/test_unit.sh
index 8fc2cdc..bff0c15 100755
--- a/ci/linux/test_unit.sh
+++ b/ci/linux/test_unit.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 if [[ "$OSTYPE" != "win32" && "$OSTYPE" != "msys" ]]; then
   echo "Activating .venv first."
   . .venv/bin/activate
 fi
+
 PYTHONPATH='$PYTHONPATH:src/' pytest --junit-xml=test-results.xml unit_test/
diff --git a/ci/linux/typecheck.sh b/ci/linux/typecheck.sh
index b96b320..8535dbf 100755
--- a/ci/linux/typecheck.sh
+++ b/ci/linux/typecheck.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 if [[ "$OSTYPE" != "win32" && "$OSTYPE" != "msys" ]]; then
   echo "Activating .venv first."
diff --git a/ci/linux/update_dependencies.sh b/ci/linux/update_dependencies.sh
index e285b32..fea6566 100755
--- a/ci/linux/update_dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/linux/update_dependencies.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 if [[ "$OSTYPE" != "win32" && "$OSTYPE" != "msys" ]]; then
+  echo "Activating .venv first."
   . .venv/bin/activate
 fi
 
-pip-compile --output-file=requirements.txt pyproject.toml
-pip-compile --extra=dev -c requirements.txt --output-file=dev-requirements.txt pyproject.toml
+pip-compile --upgrade --output-file=requirements.txt pyproject.toml
+pip-compile --upgrade --extra=dev -c requirements.txt --output-file=dev-requirements.txt pyproject.toml
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 484c0c0..6b3a819 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -4,29 +4,31 @@
 #
 #    pip-compile --constraint=requirements.txt --extra=dev --output-file=dev-requirements.txt pyproject.toml
 #
-aio-pika==9.4.2
+aio-pika==9.4.3
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   omotes-sdk-python
-aiormq==6.8.0
+aiormq==6.8.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   aio-pika
-alembic==1.13.1
+alembic==1.13.3
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-amqp==5.2.0
+amqp==5.3.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   kombu
-billiard==4.2.0
+attrs==24.2.0
+    # via flake8-bugbear
+billiard==4.2.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   celery
-black==22.1.0
+black==24.10.0
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-build==1.0.3
+build==1.2.2.post1
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
 celery==5.3.6
     # via
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ click==8.1.7
     #   click-didyoumean
     #   click-plugins
     #   click-repl
-click-didyoumean==0.3.0
+click-didyoumean==0.3.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   celery
@@ -53,39 +55,49 @@ click-repl==0.3.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   celery
-coverage[toml]==7.3.2
+coverage[toml]==7.6.9
     # via pytest-cov
 dataclass-binder==0.3.4
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-flake8==6.0.0
+flake8==7.1.1
     # via
+    #   flake8-bugbear
     #   flake8-docstrings
     #   flake8-pyproject
     #   flake8-quotes
+    #   flake8-tuple
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
+flake8-bugbear==24.10.31
+    # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
 flake8-docstrings==1.7.0
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
+flake8-mock==0.4
+    # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
 flake8-pyproject==1.2.3
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-flake8-quotes==3.3.2
+flake8-quotes==3.4.0
+    # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
+flake8-tuple==0.4.1
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
 future-fstrings==1.2.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pyecore
-greenlet==3.0.1
+greenlet==3.1.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   sqlalchemy
-idna==3.6
+idna==3.10
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   yarl
 iniconfig==2.0.0
     # via pytest
-kombu==5.3.4
+isort==5.13.2
+    # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
+kombu==5.4.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   celery
@@ -93,21 +105,21 @@ lxml==5.3.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pyecore
-mako==1.3.2
+mako==1.3.8
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   alembic
-markupsafe==2.1.5
+markupsafe==3.0.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   mako
 mccabe==0.7.0
     # via flake8
-multidict==6.0.5
+multidict==6.1.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   yarl
-mypy==1.5.1
+mypy==1.13.0
     # via
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
     #   sqlalchemy
@@ -127,8 +139,9 @@ ordered-set==4.1.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pyecore
-packaging==23.2
+packaging==24.2
     # via
+    #   black
     #   build
     #   pytest
     #   setuptools-git-versioning
@@ -137,51 +150,55 @@ pamqp==3.3.0
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   aiormq
     #   omotes-sdk-python
-pathspec==0.11.2
+pathspec==0.12.1
     # via black
-platformdirs==4.1.0
+platformdirs==4.3.6
     # via black
-pluggy==1.3.0
+pluggy==1.5.0
     # via pytest
-prompt-toolkit==3.0.41
+prompt-toolkit==3.0.48
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   click-repl
-protobuf==4.25.2
+propcache==0.2.1
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   yarl
+protobuf==4.25.5
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   omotes-sdk-protocol
-psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
+psycopg2-binary==2.9.10
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-pycodestyle==2.10.0
+pycodestyle==2.12.1
     # via flake8
 pydocstyle==6.3.0
     # via flake8-docstrings
-pyecore==0.12.1
+pyecore==0.13.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pyesdl
-pyesdl==24.9.0
+pyesdl==24.11.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   omotes-sdk-python
-pyflakes==3.0.1
+pyflakes==3.2.0
     # via flake8
-pyproject-hooks==1.0.0
+pyproject-hooks==1.2.0
     # via build
-pytest==7.3.2
+pytest==8.3.4
     # via
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
     #   pytest-cov
-pytest-cov==4.0.0
+pytest-cov==6.0.0
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-python-dateutil==2.8.2
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   celery
-python-dotenv==1.0.0
+python-dotenv==1.0.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
@@ -189,26 +206,25 @@ restrictedpython==7.4
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pyecore
-setuptools-git-versioning==1.13.5
+setuptools-git-versioning==2.0.0
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-six==1.16.0
+six==1.17.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   flake8-tuple
     #   python-dateutil
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0
     # via pydocstyle
-sqlalchemy[mypy]==2.0.28
+sqlalchemy[mypy]==2.0.36
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   alembic
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-streamcapture==1.2.4
+streamcapture==1.2.5
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   omotes-sdk-python
-tomli==2.0.1
-    # via black
-types-protobuf==4.24.0.20240302
+types-protobuf==4.24.0.20240408
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
 typing-extensions==4.11.0
     # via
@@ -217,21 +233,24 @@ typing-extensions==4.11.0
     #   mypy
     #   omotes-sdk-python
     #   sqlalchemy
-tzdata==2023.3
+tzdata==2024.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   celery
+    #   kombu
 vine==5.1.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   amqp
     #   celery
     #   kombu
-wcwidth==0.2.12
+wcwidth==0.2.13
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   prompt-toolkit
-yarl==1.9.4
+wheel==0.45.1
+    # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
+yarl==1.18.3
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   aio-pika
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 143fb25..8a12467 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -35,17 +35,22 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
-    #"pip-tools~=6.13.0",  # Installed via create_env script
-    "black ~= 22.1.0",
-    "flake8 ~= 6.0.0",
-    "Flake8-pyproject ~= 1.2.3",
+    "setuptools ~= 75.6.0",
+    "wheel ~= 0.45.1",
+    "setuptools-git-versioning >= 2.0, < 3",
+    "black ~= 24.10.0",
+    "flake8 == 7.1.1",
+    "flake8-pyproject ~= 1.2.3",
     "flake8-docstrings ~= 1.7.0",
-    "flake8-quotes ~= 3.3.2",
-    "pytest ~= 7.3.1",
-    "pytest-cov ~= 4.0.0",
-    "mypy ~= 1.5.1",
-    "build ~= 1.0.3",
-    "setuptools-git-versioning < 2",
+    "flake8-quotes ~= 3.4.0",
+    "flake8-bugbear ~= 24.10.31",
+    "flake8-mock ~= 0.4",
+    "flake8-tuple ~= 0.4.1",
+    "pytest ~= 8.3.4",
+    "pytest-cov ~= 6.0.0",
+    "mypy ~= 1.13.0",
+    "isort == 5.13.2",
+    "build ~= 1.2.2",
     "sqlalchemy[mypy]",
     "types-protobuf ~= 4.24.0"
 ]
@@ -58,13 +63,18 @@ changelog = "https://github.com/Nieuwe-Warmte-Nu/orchestrator/blob/main/CHANGELO
 
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
-requires = ["setuptools ~= 67.7.2", "wheel ~= 0.40.0", "setuptools-git-versioning<2"]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools ~= 75.6.0",
+    "wheel ~= 0.45.1",
+    "setuptools-git-versioning >= 2.0, < 3",
+]
 
 [tools.setuptools]
 packages = ["src/omotes_orchestrator"]
 
 [tool.setuptools-git-versioning]
 enabled = true
+starting_version = "0.0.1"
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 addopts = """--cov=omotes_orchestrator --cov-report html --cov-report term-missing \
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5d6ad2d..c865a34 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@
 #
 #    pip-compile --output-file=requirements.txt pyproject.toml
 #
-aio-pika==9.4.2
+aio-pika==9.4.3
     # via omotes-sdk-python
-aiormq==6.8.0
+aiormq==6.8.1
     # via aio-pika
-alembic==1.13.1
+alembic==1.13.3
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-amqp==5.2.0
+amqp==5.3.1
     # via kombu
-billiard==4.2.0
+billiard==4.2.1
     # via celery
 celery==5.3.6
     # via
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ click==8.1.7
     #   click-didyoumean
     #   click-plugins
     #   click-repl
-click-didyoumean==0.3.0
+click-didyoumean==0.3.1
     # via celery
 click-plugins==1.1.1
     # via celery
@@ -34,19 +34,19 @@ dataclass-binder==0.3.4
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
 future-fstrings==1.2.0
     # via pyecore
-greenlet==3.0.1
+greenlet==3.1.1
     # via sqlalchemy
-idna==3.6
+idna==3.10
     # via yarl
-kombu==5.3.4
+kombu==5.4.2
     # via celery
 lxml==5.3.0
     # via pyecore
-mako==1.3.2
+mako==1.3.8
     # via alembic
-markupsafe==2.1.5
+markupsafe==3.0.2
     # via mako
-multidict==6.0.5
+multidict==6.1.0
     # via yarl
 omotes-sdk-protocol==0.1.13
     # via omotes-sdk-python
@@ -58,45 +58,49 @@ pamqp==3.3.0
     # via
     #   aiormq
     #   omotes-sdk-python
-prompt-toolkit==3.0.41
+prompt-toolkit==3.0.48
     # via click-repl
-protobuf==4.25.2
+propcache==0.2.1
+    # via yarl
+protobuf==4.25.5
     # via omotes-sdk-protocol
-psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
+psycopg2-binary==2.9.10
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-pyecore==0.12.1
+pyecore==0.13.2
     # via pyesdl
-pyesdl==24.9.0
+pyesdl==24.11.2
     # via omotes-sdk-python
-python-dateutil==2.8.2
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via celery
-python-dotenv==1.0.0
+python-dotenv==1.0.1
     # via orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
 restrictedpython==7.4
     # via pyecore
-six==1.16.0
+six==1.17.0
     # via python-dateutil
-sqlalchemy==2.0.28
+sqlalchemy==2.0.36
     # via
     #   alembic
     #   orchestrator (pyproject.toml)
-streamcapture==1.2.4
+streamcapture==1.2.5
     # via omotes-sdk-python
 typing-extensions==4.11.0
     # via
     #   alembic
     #   omotes-sdk-python
     #   sqlalchemy
-tzdata==2023.3
-    # via celery
+tzdata==2024.2
+    # via
+    #   celery
+    #   kombu
 vine==5.1.0
     # via
     #   amqp
     #   celery
     #   kombu
-wcwidth==0.2.12
+wcwidth==0.2.13
     # via prompt-toolkit
-yarl==1.9.4
+yarl==1.18.3
     # via
     #   aio-pika
     #   aiormq