diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd.yml b/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
index bccec0629..9ca8574ca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
         if [[ ${{ matrix.python-version }} == '3.8' ]]; then
           pip install .[spacy]
           # download the small English pretrained spaCy model needed by spacy analyzer
-          python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
+          python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed
         fi
         # For Python 3.7
         # - voikko and pycld3 dependencies
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 10b80eaf9..a66f9ebd0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def read(fname):
     zip_safe=False,
     python_requires='>=3.7',
     install_requires=[
-        'connexion2[swagger-ui]',
+        'connexion[swagger-ui]==2.12.*',
         'swagger_ui_bundle',
         'flask>=1.0.4,<3',
         'flask-cors',
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ def read(fname):
     extras_require={
         'fasttext': ['fasttext==0.9.2'],
         'voikko': ['voikko'],
-        'nn': ['tensorflow-cpu==2.7.0', 'lmdb==1.3.0'],
-        'omikuji': ['omikuji==0.4.*'],
+        'nn': ['tensorflow-cpu==2.7.1', 'lmdb==1.3.0'],
+        'omikuji': ['omikuji==0.5.*'],
         'yake': ['yake==0.4.5'],
         'pycld3': ['pycld3'],
         'spacy': ['spacy==3.2.*'],