diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yml
index a0bcf27..72c8ddb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
           python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
           python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
       - name: Lint with Ruff
-        run: ruff --output-format=github .
+        run: ruff check --output-format=github .
         continue-on-error: true
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8611701..9f9d736 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ WORKDIR /app
 COPY requirements.txt /app
 RUN python3 -m venv .
 RUN python3 -m pip install pip==24.0
-RUN python3 -m pip install setuptools==69.1.0
+RUN python3 -m pip install setuptools==69.1.1
 RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 COPY ./app /app
 EXPOSE 5000
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ce1f2a..8369001 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ The code has been tested using:
 * [TensorFlow] (2.15): an open source software [Deep Learning] library for high performance numerical computation using data flow graphs.
 * [Matplotlib] (3.8): a plotting library for [Python] and its numerical mathematics extension [NumPy].
 * [NumPy] (1.26): a library for [Python], adding support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a large collection of high-level mathematical functions to operate on these arrays.
+* [Ruff] (0.3): An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
 * [scikit-image] (0.22): a collection of algorithms for image processing with [Python].
 
 ### PYTHON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ Command to configure virtual environment with [venv]:
 ~/deeplearning_flask$ python3 -m venv dlflask3
 ~/deeplearning_flask$ source dlflask3/bin/activate
 (dlflask3)~/deeplearning_flask$ python3 -m pip install pip==24.0
-(dlflask3)~/deeplearning_flask$ python3 -m pip install setuptools==69.1.0
+(dlflask3)~/deeplearning_flask$ python3 -m pip install setuptools==69.1.1
 (dlflask3)~/deeplearning_flask$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
 ```
 
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ deeplearning_flask
 ├── .github
 │   └── workflows
 │       └── ci_tests.yml
+├── .gitignore
 ├── app
 │   ├── app
 │   │   ├── __init__.py
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ deeplearning_flask
 ├── nginx
 │   └── conf.d
 │       └── local.conf
+├── pyproject.toml
 ├── README.md
 ├── requirements.txt
 └── requirements_dev.txt
@@ -243,3 +246,4 @@ copyright: 2018-2024
 [curl]: https://curl.haxx.se/
 [pytest]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/
 [Makefile]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makefile
+[Ruff]: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/
diff --git a/.ruff.toml b/pyproject.toml
similarity index 85%
rename from .ruff.toml
rename to pyproject.toml
index afc4ae5..fa32cdb 100644
--- a/.ruff.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+[tool.ruff]
+extend-include = ["*.ipynb"]
+
 line-length = 100
 target-version = "py310"
-lint.select = [
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+select = [
     # pycodestyle
     "E",
     "W",
@@ -15,4 +20,3 @@ lint.select = [
     # isort
     "I",
 ]
-extend-include = ["*.ipynb"]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f1b88dc..98cdd02 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Flask==3.0.2
 gunicorn==21.2.0
 numpy==1.26.4
 Pillow==10.2.0
-pytest==8.0.1
+pytest==8.0.2
 requests==2.31.0
-ruff==0.2.2
+ruff==0.3.0
 scikit-image==0.22.0
 tensorflow==2.15.0
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 78bc71e..d3b2f03 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 -r requirements.txt
-jupyterlab==4.1.1
+jupyterlab==4.1.2
 matplotlib==3.8.3