diff --git a/.github/workflows/process_test.yml b/.github/workflows/process_test.yml
index 1c7e3b0b..5ba3d51a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/process_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/process_test.yml
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ jobs:
     name: process_test
     steps:
       - name: Install Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: "3.8"        
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           path: "main"
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install wheel
+          python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
           cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/main
           pip install .  
       - name: Clone AWS Level 0 data repo for testing
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit_test.yml b/.github/workflows/unit_test.yml
index f30771c3..b8f44cba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit_test.yml
@@ -12,18 +12,19 @@ jobs:
         python-version: ['3.8','3.9','3.10']
     steps:
       - name: Install Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: "3.x"        
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         shell: bash
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install Bottleneck
+          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python3 -m pip install Bottleneck 
+          python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
           cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
           pip install . 
       - name: Run unit tests