diff --git a/requirements/tools/check_changes.py b/requirements/tools/check_changes.py
index 19ac5c4188c..bdf990d9ce9 100644
--- a/requirements/tools/check_changes.py
+++ b/requirements/tools/check_changes.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def classify_reqs_path(reqs_path: str) -> ReqsClassification:
 
 def get_symbol(c: ReqsClassification):
     symbol = "🧪"
-    if c.module_type == "service" and c.reqs_type not in ("test", "tools"):
+    if c.module_type == "services" and c.reqs_type not in ("test", "tools"):
         symbol = "⬆️"
     elif c.reqs_type == "tools":
         symbol = "🔧"
@@ -132,10 +132,11 @@ def main_changes_stats() -> None:
     before, after, counts, lib2reqs = parse_changes(filepath)
 
     # format
-    print("## Changes to libraries (only updated libraries are included)")
+    print("###  Highlights on updated libraries (only updated libraries are included)")
+    print()
     print("- #packages before:", len(before))
     print("- #packages after :", len(after))
-    print()
+    print("")
 
     COLUMNS = ["#", "name", "before", "after", "upgrade", "count", "packages"]
 
@@ -173,6 +174,13 @@ def main_changes_stats() -> None:
                 "|",
             )
 
+    print()
+    print("*Legend*: ")
+    print("- ⬆️ base dependency (only services because packages are floating)")
+    print("- 🧪 test dependency")
+    print("- 🔧 tool dependency")
+    print()
+
 
 ## Stats on installed packages (i.e. defined in txt files)
 DEPENDENCY = re.compile(r"([\w_-]+)==([0-9\.-]+)")
diff --git a/services/web/server/requirements/_base.in b/services/web/server/requirements/_base.in
index a770cd9610b..0a88ba2665e 100644
--- a/services/web/server/requirements/_base.in
+++ b/services/web/server/requirements/_base.in
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
 # socket_id saved in redis does not correspond to client's sio
 python-socketio~=4.6.1
 
-# SEE services/web/server/tests/unit/isolated/test_utils.py::test_yarl_url_compose_changed_with_latest_release
-yarl<1.6
 
 
 aio-pika # RabbitMQ client
@@ -47,11 +45,11 @@ json2html
 jsondiff
 openpyxl # excel
 orjson  # json
+packaging
 parfive  # excel
 passlib
 pint # units
 pydantic[email] # models
 python-magic # excel
 redis
-semantic_version
 tenacity
diff --git a/services/web/server/requirements/_base.txt b/services/web/server/requirements/_base.txt
index aeface3c816..4eb23c40cc9 100644
--- a/services/web/server/requirements/_base.txt
+++ b/services/web/server/requirements/_base.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 #    pip-compile --output-file=requirements/_base.txt --strip-extras requirements/_base.in
 #
-aio-pika==7.1.2
+aio-pika==7.2.0
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
 aiodebug==2.3.0
     # via
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ change-case==0.5.2
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
 charset-normalizer==2.0.12
     # via aiohttp
-click==8.0.4
+click==8.1.3
     # via typer
-cryptography==36.0.2
+cryptography==37.0.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/models-library/requirements/../../../requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/postgres-database/requirements/../../../requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ deprecated==1.2.13
     # via redis
 dnspython==2.2.1
     # via email-validator
-email-validator==1.1.3
+email-validator==1.2.1
     # via pydantic
 et-xmlfile==1.1.0
     # via openpyxl
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ isodate==0.6.1
     # via openapi-core
 jinja-app-loader==1.0.2
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
-jinja2==3.1.1
+jinja2==3.1.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/models-library/requirements/../../../requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/postgres-database/requirements/../../../requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -125,12 +125,13 @@ jinja2==3.1.1
     #   aiohttp-swagger
 json2html==1.3.0
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
-jsondiff==1.3.1
+jsondiff==2.0.0
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
 jsonschema==3.2.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/././constraints.txt
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/./constraints.txt
+    #   -r requirements/../../../../packages/models-library/requirements/_base.in
     #   -r requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/_aiohttp.in
     #   openapi-schema-validator
     #   openapi-spec-validator
@@ -156,11 +157,11 @@ openapi-spec-validator==0.4.0
     # via openapi-core
 openpyxl==3.0.9
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
-orjson==3.6.7
+orjson==3.6.8
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
 packaging==21.3
     # via
-    #   pint
+    #   -r requirements/_base.in
     #   redis
 pamqp==3.1.0
     # via aiormq
@@ -168,9 +169,9 @@ parfive==1.5.1
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
 passlib==1.7.4
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
-pint==0.18
+pint==0.19.2
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
-prometheus-client==0.13.1
+prometheus-client==0.14.1
     # via -r requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/_aiohttp.in
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.3
     # via
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@ pyinstrument==3.4.2
     #   -r requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/_base.in
 pyinstrument-cext==0.2.4
     # via pyinstrument
-pyparsing==3.0.7
+pyparsing==3.0.9
     # via packaging
 pyrsistent==0.18.1
     # via jsonschema
@@ -222,11 +223,9 @@ pyyaml==5.4.1
     #   -r requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/_base.in
     #   aiohttp-swagger
     #   openapi-spec-validator
-redis==4.2.2
-    # via -r requirements/_base.in
-semantic-version==2.9.0
+redis==4.3.1
     # via -r requirements/_base.in
-setproctitle==1.2.2
+setproctitle==1.2.3
     # via gunicorn
 six==1.16.0
     # via
@@ -235,7 +234,7 @@ six==1.16.0
     #   openapi-core
     #   python-engineio
     #   python-socketio
-sqlalchemy==1.4.32
+sqlalchemy==1.4.36
     # via
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/models-library/requirements/../../../requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/postgres-database/requirements/../../../requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -253,24 +252,24 @@ tenacity==8.0.1
     #   -c requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/./_base.in
     #   -r requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/_base.in
     #   -r requirements/_base.in
-tqdm==4.63.1
+tqdm==4.64.0
     # via parfive
 typer==0.4.1
     # via -r requirements/../../../../packages/settings-library/requirements/_base.in
-typing-extensions==4.1.1
+typing-extensions==4.2.0
     # via
     #   aiodebug
     #   pydantic
-ujson==5.1.0
+ujson==5.2.0
     # via aiohttp-swagger
-werkzeug==2.0.3
+werkzeug==2.1.2
     # via -r requirements/../../../../packages/service-library/requirements/_aiohttp.in
-wrapt==1.14.0
+wrapt==1.14.1
     # via deprecated
 yarl==1.5.1
     # via
+    #   -c requirements/./constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/../../../../packages/postgres-database/requirements/_base.in
-    #   -r requirements/_base.in
     #   aio-pika
     #   aiohttp
     #   aiormq
diff --git a/services/web/server/requirements/_test.txt b/services/web/server/requirements/_test.txt
index eecdc967b20..47ea015e550 100644
--- a/services/web/server/requirements/_test.txt
+++ b/services/web/server/requirements/_test.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ charset-normalizer==2.0.12
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   aiohttp
     #   requests
-click==8.0.4
+click==8.1.3
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   -r requirements/_test.in
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ coverage==6.3.2
     #   pytest-cov
 coveralls==3.3.1
     # via -r requirements/_test.in
-cryptography==36.0.2
+cryptography==37.0.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements/../../../../requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ docopt==0.6.2
     # via
     #   coveralls
     #   docker-compose
-faker==13.7.0
+faker==13.11.0
     # via -r requirements/_test.in
 flaky==3.7.0
     # via -r requirements/_test.in
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ greenlet==1.1.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   sqlalchemy
-hypothesis==6.46.2
+hypothesis==6.46.3
     # via -r requirements/_test.in
 icdiff==2.0.5
     # via pytest-icdiff
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ pylint==2.13.8
     # via -r requirements/_test.in
 pynacl==1.5.0
     # via paramiko
-pyparsing==3.0.7
+pyparsing==3.0.9
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   packaging
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ pyyaml==5.4.1
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   docker-compose
     #   openapi-spec-validator
-redis==4.2.2
+redis==4.3.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   -r requirements/_test.in
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ six==1.16.0
     #   websocket-client
 sortedcontainers==2.4.0
     # via hypothesis
-sqlalchemy==1.4.32
+sqlalchemy==1.4.36
     # via
     #   -c requirements/../../../../requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ tomli==2.0.1
     #   coverage
     #   pylint
     #   pytest
-typing-extensions==4.1.1
+typing-extensions==4.2.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   astroid
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ websocket-client==0.59.0
     #   docker-compose
 websockets==10.3
     # via -r requirements/_test.in
-wrapt==1.14.0
+wrapt==1.14.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   astroid
diff --git a/services/web/server/requirements/_tools.txt b/services/web/server/requirements/_tools.txt
index dab8f4be087..832a46cf35a 100644
--- a/services/web/server/requirements/_tools.txt
+++ b/services/web/server/requirements/_tools.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ bump2version==1.0.1
     # via -r requirements/../../../../requirements/devenv.txt
 cfgv==3.3.1
     # via pre-commit
-click==8.0.4
+click==8.1.3
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   -c requirements/_test.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ tomli==2.0.1
     #   -c requirements/_test.txt
     #   black
     #   pep517
-typing-extensions==4.1.1
+typing-extensions==4.2.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements/_base.txt
     #   -c requirements/_test.txt
diff --git a/services/web/server/requirements/constraints.txt b/services/web/server/requirements/constraints.txt
index 2720e191426..67dab3e70af 100644
--- a/services/web/server/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/services/web/server/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -10,3 +10,7 @@
 #
 # SEE https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument#v400release
 pyinstrument<4
+
+
+# SEE services/web/server/tests/unit/isolated/test_utils.py::test_yarl_url_compose_changed_with_latest_release
+yarl<1.6
diff --git a/services/web/server/src/simcore_service_webserver/_meta.py b/services/web/server/src/simcore_service_webserver/_meta.py
index 134b4773d3b..8cd0a51e14f 100644
--- a/services/web/server/src/simcore_service_webserver/_meta.py
+++ b/services/web/server/src/simcore_service_webserver/_meta.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 """
 import pkg_resources
-from semantic_version import Version
+from packaging.version import Version
 
 __version__: str = pkg_resources.get_distribution("simcore-service-webserver").version