diff --git a/packages/grid/backend/backend.dockerfile b/packages/grid/backend/backend.dockerfile
index 4bdd84f39a0..ef249c764c6 100644
--- a/packages/grid/backend/backend.dockerfile
+++ b/packages/grid/backend/backend.dockerfile
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ COPY --chown=$USER_GRP \
 
 # Install all dependencies together here to avoid any version conflicts across pkgs
 RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pip-$UID,target=$HOME/.cache/pip,uid=$UID,gid=$UID,sharing=locked \
-    pip install --user torch==2.1.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch_stable.html && \
+    pip install --user torch==2.1.1 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch_stable.html && \
     pip install --user pip-autoremove jupyterlab==4.0.7 -e ./syft[data_science] && \
     pip-autoremove ansible ansible-core -y
 
diff --git a/packages/hagrid/setup.py b/packages/hagrid/setup.py
index 65530e38631..7c1620c943f 100644
--- a/packages/hagrid/setup.py
+++ b/packages/hagrid/setup.py
@@ -26,14 +26,12 @@
     "virtualenv",
     "PyYAML",
     "tqdm",
-    "gevent>=22.10.2",
+    "gevent>=22.10.2,<=23.9.1",
 ]
 
 if platform.system().lower() != "windows":
     packages.extend(["ansible", "ansible-core"])
 
-# Pillow binary wheels for Apple Silicon on Python 3.8 don't seem to work well
-# try using Python 3.9+ for HAGrid on Apple Silicon
 setup(
     name="hagrid",
     description="Happy Automation for Grid",
diff --git a/packages/syft/setup.cfg b/packages/syft/setup.cfg
index 7a981afb333..e79329198e8 100644
--- a/packages/syft/setup.cfg
+++ b/packages/syft/setup.cfg
@@ -29,41 +29,40 @@ syft =
     bcrypt==4.0.1
     boto3==1.28.65
     forbiddenfruit==0.1.4
-    gevent==22.10.2
-    gipc==1.5.0
+    gevent==23.9.1
     loguru==0.7.2
     networkx==2.8
     packaging>=23.0
     pyarrow==14.0.1
     pycapnp==1.3.0
     pydantic[email]==1.10.13
-    pymongo==4.5.0
+    pymongo==4.6.1
     pynacl==1.5.0
     pyzmq>=23.2.1,<=25.1.1
     redis==4.6.0
     requests==2.31.0
-    RestrictedPython==6.2
+    RestrictedPython==7.0
     result==0.10.0
     tqdm==4.66.1
     typeguard==2.13.3
     typing_extensions==4.8.0
     sherlock[redis,filelock]==0.4.1
-    uvicorn[standard]==0.23.2
+    uvicorn[standard]==0.24.0.post1
     fastapi==0.103.2
     psutil==5.9.6
     hagrid>=0.3
     itables==1.6.2
-    safetensors==0.4.0
+    safetensors==0.4.1
     argon2-cffi==23.1.0
     matplotlib==3.8.0
     # jaxlib is a DL library but we are needing it for serialization
-    jaxlib==0.4.18
-    jax==0.4.18
+    jaxlib==0.4.20
+    jax==0.4.20
     # numpy and pandas are ML packages but are needed in many places througout the codebase
     numpy>=1.23.5,<=1.24.4
     pandas==1.5.3
     docker==6.1.3
-    PyYAML>=6.0,<7
+    PyYAML==6.0.1
 
 
 install_requires =
@@ -81,23 +80,23 @@ exclude =
 
 [options.extras_require]
 data_science =
-    transformers==4.34.0
+    transformers==4.35.2
     opendp==0.8.0
     evaluate==0.4.1
     recordlinkage==0.16
     dm-haiku==0.0.10
-    torch[cpu]==2.1.0
+    torch[cpu]==2.1.1
 
 dev =
     %(test_plugins)s
     %(telemetry)s
     bandit==1.7.5
-    ruff==0.1.0
+    ruff==0.1.6
     importlib-metadata==6.8.0
     isort==5.12.0
-    mypy==1.6.0
+    mypy==1.7.1
     pre-commit==3.5.0
-    safety>=2.4.0b1
+    safety>=2.4.0b2
 
 telemetry =
     opentelemetry-api==1.14.0
@@ -124,9 +123,6 @@ test_plugins =
     faker
     lxml
 
-oblv =
-    oblv-ctl==0.3.1
-
 [options.entry_points]
 console_scripts =
     syft=syft.node.run:run
diff --git a/packages/syft/src/syft/node/node.py b/packages/syft/src/syft/node/node.py
index 49d04b33d61..c77afa38233 100644
--- a/packages/syft/src/syft/node/node.py
+++ b/packages/syft/src/syft/node/node.py
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
 from ..external import OBLV
 from ..protocol.data_protocol import PROTOCOL_TYPE
 from ..protocol.data_protocol import get_data_protocol
-from ..serde.deserialize import _deserialize
-from ..serde.serialize import _serialize
 from ..service.action.action_object import Action
 from ..service.action.action_object import ActionObject
 from ..service.action.action_service import ActionService
@@ -124,14 +122,6 @@
 CODE_RELOADER: Dict[int, Callable] = {}
 
 
-def gipc_encoder(obj):
-    return _serialize(obj, to_bytes=True)
-
-
-def gipc_decoder(obj_bytes):
-    return _deserialize(obj_bytes, from_bytes=True)
-
-
 NODE_PRIVATE_KEY = "NODE_PRIVATE_KEY"
 NODE_UID = "NODE_UID"
 NODE_TYPE = "NODE_TYPE"