diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 59e8dbd..824509f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          python-version: 3.7
+          python-version: "3.8"
 
       - name: Install Python dependencies
-        run: pip install openwisp-utils[qa]>=0.7
+        run: pip install openwisp-utils[qa]
 
       - name: Install Development dependencies
         run: sudo ./install-dev.sh
diff --git a/runbuild b/runbuild
index 87e6e49..f63eba3 100755
--- a/runbuild
+++ b/runbuild
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ COMPILE_TARGET=${COMPILE_TARGET-mips_24kc}
 LATEST_LINK="$DOWNLOADS_DIR/latest"
 CORES=${CORES:-1}
 CURRENT_DIR=$(pwd)
-OPENWRT_BRANCH="openwrt-21.02"
+OPENWRT_BRANCH="openwrt-23.05"
 
 mkdir -p "$BUILD_DIR"
 mkdir -p "$VERSIONED_DIR"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ git checkout $OPENWRT_BRANCH
 git reset --hard origin/$OPENWRT_BRANCH
 
 # configure feeds
-echo "src-git openwisp_config https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-config.git^1.0.0" >feeds.conf
+echo "src-git openwisp_config https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-config.git" >feeds.conf
 echo "src-link openwisp_monitoring $CURRENT_DIR" >>feeds.conf
 cat feeds.conf.default >>feeds.conf
 # remove unneeded feeds
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ if [ ! "$CI_CACHE" ]; then
 	make -j"$CORES" toolchain/install
 fi
 
-make -j"$CORES" package/openwisp-monitoring/compile || exit 1
+make -j"$CORES" package/openwisp-monitoring/compile \
+	|| make -j1 V=s package/openwisp-monitoring/compile || exit 1
 
 mv "$BUILD_DIR/openwrt/bin/packages/$COMPILE_TARGET/openwisp_monitoring" "$VERSIONED_DIR"