diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fastai/fastai-2.7.10-foss-2022a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fastai/fastai-2.7.15-foss-2022b.eb
index 50b4ecd47f..20e8dcdf96 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fastai/fastai-2.7.10-foss-2022a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fastai/fastai-2.7.15-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -1,39 +1,39 @@
 easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
 
 name = 'fastai'
-version = '2.7.10'
+version = '2.7.15'
 
 homepage = 'https://www.fast.ai/'
 description = """The fastai deep learning library."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 use_pip = True
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.10.4'),
-    ('PyTorch', '1.12.0'),
-    ('torchvision', '0.13.1'),
-    ('matplotlib', '3.5.2'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2022.05'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('PyTorch', '1.13.1'),
+    ('matplotlib', '3.7.0'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
     ('PyYAML', '6.0'),
-    ('Pillow', '9.1.1'),
-    ('scikit-learn', '1.1.2'),
-    ('spaCy', '3.4.4'),
+    ('Pillow', '9.4.0'),
+    ('scikit-learn', '1.2.1'),
+    ('spaCy', '3.7.4'),
+    ('torchvision', '0.14.1'),
 ]
 
 exts_list = [
     ('fastdownload', '0.0.7', {
         'checksums': ['20507edb8e89406a1fbd7775e6e2a3d81a4dd633dd506b0e9cf0e1613e831d6a'],
     }),
-    ('fastcore', '1.5.27', {
-        'checksums': ['c6b66b35569d17251e25999bafc7d9bcdd6446c1e710503c08670c3ff1eef271'],
+    ('fastcore', '1.5.54', {
+        'checksums': ['3f23dfadd77428be99558fdad66bf04c79a9c626e694c7404ede816ed8372987'],
     }),
     ('fastprogress', '1.0.3', {
         'checksums': ['7a17d2b438890f838c048eefce32c4ded47197ecc8ea042cecc33d3deb8022f5'],
     }),
     (name, version, {
-        'checksums': ['ccef6a185ae3a637efc9bcd9fea8e48b75f454d0ebad3b6df426f22fae20039d'],
+        'checksums': ['f2cc20fd18cdf5ec738cc56d29d54de75887d48ad15f9d35cf50c38d3a856923'],
     }),
 ]
 

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HF-Datasets/HF-Datasets-2.18.0-gfbf-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HF-Datasets/HF-Datasets-2.14.4-gfbf-2022b.eb
index 6b7fb2bd5b..e92ec85db9 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HF-Datasets/HF-Datasets-2.18.0-gfbf-2023a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HF-Datasets/HF-Datasets-2.14.4-gfbf-2022b.eb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 easyblock = "PythonBundle"
 
 name = 'HF-Datasets'
-version = '2.18.0'
+version = '2.14.4'
 
 homepage = 'https://github.com/huggingface/datasets'
 description = """
@@ -9,43 +9,35 @@ The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for ML models with fast, easy-to-use an
 data manipulation tools.
 """
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'gfbf', 'version': '2023a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'gfbf', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
-    ('Python-bundle-PyPI', '2023.06'),  # for fsspec
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.07'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
     ('aiohttp', '3.8.5'),
     ('dill', '0.3.7'),
-    ('Arrow', '14.0.1'),
+    ('Arrow', '11.0.0'),
     ('PyYAML', '6.0'),
-    ('tqdm', '4.66.1'),
-    ('python-xxhash', '3.4.1'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.64.1'),
+    ('python-xxhash', '3.2.0'),
 ]
 
 use_pip = True
 sanity_pip_check = True
 
 exts_list = [
+    ('pyarrow_hotfix', '0.6', {
+        'checksums': ['79d3e030f7ff890d408a100ac16d6f00b14d44a502d7897cd9fc3e3a534e9945'],
+    }),
     ('multiprocess', '0.70.15', {
         'checksums': ['f20eed3036c0ef477b07a4177cf7c1ba520d9a2677870a4f47fe026f0cd6787e'],
     }),
-    ('huggingface-hub', '0.21.4', {
+    ('huggingface-hub', '0.15.1', {
         'sources': ['huggingface_hub-%(version)s.tar.gz'],
-        'checksums': ['e1f4968c93726565a80edf6dc309763c7b546d0cfe79aa221206034d50155531'],
+        'checksums': ['a61b7d1a7769fe10119e730277c72ab99d95c48d86a3d6da3e9f3d0f632a4081'],
     }),
     ('datasets', version, {
-        'patches': [
-            'datasets-2.18.0_use-patched-pyarrow.patch',
-            'datasets-2.18.0_add-option-to-use-softfilelock.patch',
-        ],
-        'checksums': [
-            {'datasets-2.18.0.tar.gz': 'cdf8b8c6abf7316377ba4f49f9589a4c74556d6b481afd0abd2284f3d69185cb'},
-            {'datasets-2.18.0_use-patched-pyarrow.patch':
-             'a42f23c94f3f4935aae7a01aebd04bacae518537ecb674efeb94d5af7a296061'},
-            {'datasets-2.18.0_add-option-to-use-softfilelock.patch':
-             '18f3a3f3735afcbf9f4c19a2bd5bdb7221ca5ad13a36748df42404764a8cd0fc'},
-        ],
+        'checksums': ['ef29c2b5841de488cd343cfc26ab979bff77efa4d2285af51f1ad7db5c46a83b'],
     }),
 ]
 

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/i/imbalanced-learn/imbalanced-learn-0.12.3-gfbf-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/i/imbalanced-learn/imbalanced-learn-0.12.3-gfbf-2022b.eb
index 4881e78a0e..10e219da60 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/i/imbalanced-learn/imbalanced-learn-0.12.3-gfbf-2023a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/i/imbalanced-learn/imbalanced-learn-0.12.3-gfbf-2022b.eb
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ homepage = 'https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/imbalanced-learn'
 description = """imbalanced-learn is a Python package offering a number of re-sampling techniques commonly used in
  datasets showing strong between-class imbalance."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'gfbf', 'version': '2023a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'gfbf', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
-    ('scikit-learn', '1.3.1'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('scikit-learn', '1.2.1'),
 ]
 
 sanity_pip_check = True

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/lifelines/lifelines-0.27.4-foss-2022a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/lifelines/lifelines-0.27.7-foss-2022b.eb
index c300ce4d3a..69b35bc787 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/lifelines/lifelines-0.27.4-foss-2022a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/lifelines/lifelines-0.27.7-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
 
 name = 'lifelines'
-version = '0.27.4'
+version = '0.27.7'
 
 homepage = "https://lifelines.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
 description = """lifelines is a complete survival analysis library, written in pure Python."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.10.4'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2022.05'),
-    ('matplotlib', '3.5.2'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
+    ('matplotlib', '3.7.0'),
 ]
 
-sanity_pip_check = True
 use_pip = True
+sanity_pip_check = True
 
 exts_list = [
-    ('wrapt', '1.14.1', {
-        'checksums': ['380a85cf89e0e69b7cfbe2ea9f765f004ff419f34194018a6827ac0e3edfed4d'],
+    ('wrapt', '1.16.0', {
+        'checksums': ['5f370f952971e7d17c7d1ead40e49f32345a7f7a5373571ef44d800d06b1899d'],
     }),
     ('astor', '0.8.1', {
         'checksums': ['6a6effda93f4e1ce9f618779b2dd1d9d84f1e32812c23a29b3fff6fd7f63fa5e'],
@@ -27,17 +27,18 @@ exts_list = [
     ('interface_meta', '1.3.0', {
         'checksums': ['8a4493f8bdb73fb9655dcd5115bc897e207319e36c8835f39c516a2d7e9d79a1'],
     }),
-    ('autograd', '1.5', {
-        'checksums': ['d80bd225154d1db13cb4eaccf7a18c358be72092641b68717f96fcf1d16acd0b'],
+    ('autograd', '1.6.2', {
+        'checksums': ['8731e08a0c4e389d8695a40072ada4512641c113b6cace8f4cfbe8eb7e9aedeb'],
     }),
     ('autograd-gamma', '0.5.0', {
         'checksums': ['f27abb7b8bb9cffc8badcbf59f3fe44a9db39e124ecacf1992b6d952934ac9c4'],
     }),
-    ('formulaic', '0.4.0', {
-        'checksums': ['087950518c53a2491deb52b8ddd66833f953882e517a42e476c007cc8f6892c5'],
+    ('formulaic', '1.0.1', {
+        'checksums': ['64dd7992a7aa5bbceb1e40679d0f01fc6f0ba12b7d23d78094a88c2edc68fba1'],
     }),
     (name, version, {
-        'checksums': ['62f7e911a64c8f723eef4207174fb1df39a94f79eca557cdf53d310eb6be132f'],
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
+        'checksums': ['44d60171f5abe85506b55cdf754b4ba769f61a5f8f18a9d05491009c6cee5803'],
     }),
 ]
 

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/Optuna/Optuna-3.6.1-foss-2023b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/Optuna/Optuna-3.5.0-foss-2022b.eb
index 35dec40e23..26185a5afe 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/Optuna/Optuna-3.6.1-foss-2023b.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/Optuna/Optuna-3.5.0-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
 
 name = 'Optuna'
-version = '3.6.1'
+version = '3.5.0'
 
 homepage = "https://optuna.org/"
 description = """Optuna is an automatic hyperparameter optimization software framework,
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ with Optuna enjoys high modularity, and the user of Optuna can dynamically
 construct the search spaces for the hyperparameters."""
 
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023b'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.11.5'),
-    ('PyYAML', '6.0.1'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.11'),
-    ('tqdm', '4.66.2'),
-    ('matplotlib', '3.8.2'),  # optional
-    ('plotly.py', '5.18.0'),  # optional
-    ('redis-py', '5.0.9'),  # optional
-    ('scikit-learn', '1.4.0'),  # optional
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('PyYAML', '6.0'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.64.1'),
+    ('matplotlib', '3.7.0'),  # optional
+    ('plotly.py', '5.13.1'),  # optional
+    ('redis-py', '5.0.1'),  # optional
+    ('scikit-learn', '1.2.1'),  # optional
     ('SQLAlchemy', '2.0.29'),
 ]
 
@@ -29,15 +29,15 @@ use_pip = True
 sanity_pip_check = True
 
 exts_list = [
-    ('cmaes', '0.11.1', {
-        'checksums': ['cf71fa3679814723be771f2c9edd85f465b1bc1e409e1ad6d8a9e481efcd5160'],
+    ('cmaes', '0.10.0', {
+        'checksums': ['48afc70df027114739872b50489ae6b32461c307b92d084a63c7090a9742faf9'],
     }),
-    ('colorlog', '6.8.2', {
-        'checksums': ['3e3e079a41feb5a1b64f978b5ea4f46040a94f11f0e8bbb8261e3dbbeca64d44'],
+    ('colorlog', '6.8.0', {
+        'checksums': ['fbb6fdf9d5685f2517f388fb29bb27d54e8654dd31f58bc2a3b217e967a95ca6'],
     }),
     ('optuna', version, {
         'use_pip_extras': 'optional',
-        'checksums': ['146e530b57b4b9afd7526b3e642fbe65491f7e292b405913355f8e438e361ecf'],
+        'checksums': ['ca9e1ce16aa6c6a5af0e1cc1d0cbcd98eb1c75b6a2f06be6bd9c0c5ab0698724'],
     }),
 ]
 

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch-Lightning/PyTorch-Lightning-2.2.1-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch-Lightning/PyTorch-Lightning-1.8.4-foss-2022b.eb
index 9e4d061f65..acec48e218 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch-Lightning/PyTorch-Lightning-2.2.1-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch-Lightning/PyTorch-Lightning-1.8.4-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -1,32 +1,23 @@
 easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
 
 name = 'PyTorch-Lightning'
-version = '2.2.1'
-versionsuffix = '-CUDA-%(cudaver)s'
+version = '1.8.4'
 
 homepage = 'https://pytorchlightning.ai'
 description = "PyTorch Lightning is the lightweight PyTorch wrapper for ML researchers."
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
-
-builddependencies = [
-    ('flit', '3.9.0'),
-    ('poetry', '1.5.1'),
-]
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('CUDA', '12.1.1', '', SYSTEM),
-    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
     # dependencies from requirements/app/base.txt
     ('aiohttp', '3.8.5'),
-    ('BeautifulSoup', '4.12.2'),
+    ('BeautifulSoup', '4.11.1'),
     ('deepdiff', '6.7.1'),
     # dependencies from requirements/pytorch/base.txt
-    ('PyTorch', '2.1.2', versionsuffix),
-    ('tqdm', '4.66.1'),
+    ('PyTorch', '1.13.1'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.64.1'),
     ('tensorboardX', '2.6.2.2'),
-    ('pydantic', '2.5.3'),
-    ('typing-extensions', '4.9.0'),
 ]
 
 use_pip = True
@@ -36,137 +27,95 @@ exts_list = [
     ('commonmark', '0.9.1', {
         'checksums': ['452f9dc859be7f06631ddcb328b6919c67984aca654e5fefb3914d54691aed60'],
     }),
-    ('mdurl', '0.1.2', {
-        'checksums': ['bb413d29f5eea38f31dd4754dd7377d4465116fb207585f97bf925588687c1ba'],
-    }),
-    ('markdown-it-py', '3.0.0', {
-        'modulename': 'markdown_it',
-        'checksums': ['e3f60a94fa066dc52ec76661e37c851cb232d92f9886b15cb560aaada2df8feb'],
+    ('rich', '12.5.1', {
+        'checksums': ['63a5c5ce3673d3d5fbbf23cd87e11ab84b6b451436f1b7f19ec54b6bc36ed7ca'],
     }),
-    ('rich', '13.7.1', {
-        'checksums': ['9be308cb1fe2f1f57d67ce99e95af38a1e2bc71ad9813b0e247cf7ffbcc3a432'],
+    ('pydantic', '1.10.2', {
+        'checksums': ['91b8e218852ef6007c2b98cd861601c6a09f1aa32bbbb74fab5b1c33d4a1e410'],
     }),
-    ('PyJWT', '2.8.0', {
+    ('PyJWT', '2.6.0', {
         'modulename': 'jwt',
-        'checksums': ['57e28d156e3d5c10088e0c68abb90bfac3df82b40a71bd0daa20c65ccd5c23de'],
+        'checksums': ['69285c7e31fc44f68a1feb309e948e0df53259d579295e6cfe2b1792329f05fd'],
     }),
-    ('starlette', '0.36.3', {
-        'checksums': ['90a671733cfb35771d8cc605e0b679d23b992f8dcfad48cc60b38cb29aeb7080'],
+    ('starlette', '0.19.1', {
+        'checksums': ['c6d21096774ecb9639acad41b86b7706e52ba3bf1dc13ea4ed9ad593d47e24c7'],
     }),
-    ('fastapi', '0.110.0', {
-        'checksums': ['266775f0dcc95af9d3ef39bad55cff525329a931d5fd51930aadd4f428bf7ff3'],
+    ('fastapi', '0.79.1', {
+        'checksums': ['006862dec0f0f5683ac21fb0864af2ff12a931e7ba18920f28cc8eceed51896b'],
     }),
-    ('sniffio', '1.3.1', {
-        'checksums': ['f4324edc670a0f49750a81b895f35c3adb843cca46f0530f79fc1babb23789dc'],
+    ('sniffio', '1.3.0', {
+        'checksums': ['e60305c5e5d314f5389259b7f22aaa33d8f7dee49763119234af3755c55b9101'],
     }),
-    ('exceptiongroup', '1.2.0', {
-        'checksums': ['91f5c769735f051a4290d52edd0858999b57e5876e9f85937691bd4c9fa3ed68'],
+    ('anyio', '3.6.1', {
+        'checksums': ['413adf95f93886e442aea925f3ee43baa5a765a64a0f52c6081894f9992fdd0b'],
     }),
-    ('anyio', '4.3.0', {
-        'checksums': ['f75253795a87df48568485fd18cdd2a3fa5c4f7c5be8e5e36637733fce06fed6'],
-    }),
-    ('websocket-client', '1.7.0', {
+    ('websocket-client', '1.4.2', {
         'modulename': 'websocket',
-        'checksums': ['10e511ea3a8c744631d3bd77e61eb17ed09304c413ad42cf6ddfa4c7787e8fe6'],
-    }),
-    ('python_multipart', '0.0.9', {
-        'modulename': 'multipart',
-        'checksums': ['03f54688c663f1b7977105f021043b0793151e4cb1c1a9d4a11fc13d622c4026'],
+        'checksums': ['d6e8f90ca8e2dd4e8027c4561adeb9456b54044312dba655e7cae652ceb9ae59'],
     }),
-    ('h11', '0.14.0', {
-        'checksums': ['8f19fbbe99e72420ff35c00b27a34cb9937e902a8b810e2c88300c6f0a3b699d'],
-    }),
-    ('uvicorn', '0.27.1', {
-        'checksums': ['3d9a267296243532db80c83a959a3400502165ade2c1338dea4e67915fd4745a'],
-    }),
-    ('lightning_cloud', '0.5.64', {
-        'checksums': ['44c44b387260e7f808bef7a2368966da166bf58fa37562a8ce8366febe3ca38e'],
+    ('lightning_cloud', '0.5.12', {
+        'checksums': ['5b0cf53ecfb512f9476eec3a7f425c0e174ca9d0e726673605d5e1e57074eb0c'],
     }),
     ('itsdangerous', '2.1.2', {
         'checksums': ['5dbbc68b317e5e42f327f9021763545dc3fc3bfe22e6deb96aaf1fc38874156a'],
     }),
-    ('starsessions', '2.1.3', {
-        'checksums': ['d20c5f277b64a86c16819f65ac50814ccdbd146776159e08c88b378b6612297d'],
+    ('starsessions', '1.3.0', {
+        'checksums': ['8d3b509d4e6d235655f7dd495fcf0afc1bd86da84de3a8d434e6f82137ebcde8'],
     }),
-    ('fsspec', '2024.2.0', {
-        'checksums': ['b6ad1a679f760dda52b1168c859d01b7b80648ea6f7f7c7f5a8a91dc3f3ecb84'],
+    ('fsspec', '2022.7.1', {
+        'checksums': ['7f9fb19d811b027b97c4636c6073eb53bc4cbee2d3c4b33fa88b9f26906fd7d7'],
     }),
-    ('croniter', '2.0.2', {
-        'checksums': ['8bff16c9af4ef1fb6f05416973b8f7cb54997c02f2f8365251f9bf1dded91866'],
+    ('croniter', '1.3.8', {
+        'checksums': ['32a5ec04e97ec0837bcdf013767abd2e71cceeefd3c2e14c804098ce51ad6cd9'],
     }),
-    ('traitlets', '5.14.1', {
-        'checksums': ['8585105b371a04b8316a43d5ce29c098575c2e477850b62b848b964f1444527e'],
+    ('traitlets', '5.2.0', {
+        'checksums': ['60474f39bf1d39a11e0233090b99af3acee93bbc2281777e61dd8c87da8a0014'],
     }),
-    ('types-python-dateutil', '2.8.19.20240106', {
-        'modulename': False,
-        'checksums': ['1f8db221c3b98e6ca02ea83a58371b22c374f42ae5bbdf186db9c9a76581459f'],
+    ('arrow', '1.2.3', {
+        'checksums': ['3934b30ca1b9f292376d9db15b19446088d12ec58629bc3f0da28fd55fb633a1'],
     }),
-    ('arrow', '1.3.0', {
-        'preinstallopts': "PYTHONPATH=$PWD:$PYTHONPATH ",
-        'checksums': ['d4540617648cb5f895730f1ad8c82a65f2dad0166f57b75f3ca54759c4d67a85'],
+    ('lightning-utilities', '0.4.2', {
+        'checksums': ['dc6696ab180117f7e97b5488dac1d77765ab891022f7521a97a39e10d362bdb8'],
     }),
-    ('lightning-utilities', '0.10.1', {
-        'checksums': ['362755023dcf93b8fa519bc002ae41794943a3ffbc5318e40804d36aa14bf1fd'],
-    }),
-    ('blessed', '1.20.0', {
-        'checksums': ['2cdd67f8746e048f00df47a2880f4d6acbcdb399031b604e34ba8f71d5787680'],
+    ('blessed', '1.19.1', {
+        'checksums': ['9a0d099695bf621d4680dd6c73f6ad547f6a3442fbdbe80c4b1daa1edbc492fc'],
     }),
     ('python-editor', '1.0.4', {
         'modulename': 'editor',
         'checksums': ['51fda6bcc5ddbbb7063b2af7509e43bd84bfc32a4ff71349ec7847713882327b'],
     }),
-    ('readchar', '4.0.5', {
-        'checksums': ['08a456c2d7c1888cde3f4688b542621b676eb38cd6cfed7eb6cb2e2905ddc826'],
-    }),
-    ('runs', '1.2.2', {
-        'checksums': ['9dc1815e2895cfb3a48317b173b9f1eac9ba5549b36a847b5cc60c3bf82ecef1'],
+    ('readchar', '4.0.3', {
+        'checksums': ['1d920d0e9ab76ec5d42192a68d15af2562663b5dfbf4a67cf9eba520e1ca57e6'],
     }),
-    ('xmod', '1.8.1', {
-        'checksums': ['38c76486b9d672c546d57d8035df0beb7f4a9b088bc3fb2de5431ae821444377'],
+    ('inquirer', '2.10.1', {
+        'checksums': ['e9876258183e24f6e8c44136b04f6f2e18dd6684aee59b86a8057c50601a6523'],
     }),
-    ('editor', '1.6.6', {
-        'checksums': ['bb6989e872638cd119db9a4fce284cd8e13c553886a1c044c6b8d8a160c871f8'],
-    }),
-    ('inquirer', '3.2.4', {
-        'checksums': ['33b09efc1b742b9d687b540296a8b6a3f773399673321fcc2ab0eb4c109bf9b5'],
-    }),
-    ('wrapt', '1.16.0', {
-        'checksums': ['5f370f952971e7d17c7d1ead40e49f32345a7f7a5373571ef44d800d06b1899d'],
-    }),
-    ('aioitertools', '0.11.0', {
-        'checksums': ['42c68b8dd3a69c2bf7f2233bf7df4bb58b557bca5252ac02ed5187bbc67d6831'],
-    }),
-    ('botocore', '1.34.51', {
-        'checksums': ['5086217442e67dd9de36ec7e87a0c663f76b7790d5fb6a12de565af95e87e319'],
+    ('wrapt', '1.14.1', {
+        'checksums': ['380a85cf89e0e69b7cfbe2ea9f765f004ff419f34194018a6827ac0e3edfed4d'],
     }),
     ('jmespath', '1.0.1', {
         'checksums': ['90261b206d6defd58fdd5e85f478bf633a2901798906be2ad389150c5c60edbe'],
     }),
-    ('s3transfer', '0.10.0', {
-        'checksums': ['d0c8bbf672d5eebbe4e57945e23b972d963f07d82f661cabf678a5c88831595b'],
+    ('botocore', '1.24.21', {
+        'checksums': ['7e976cfd0a61601e74624ef8f5246b40a01f2cce73a011ef29cf80a6e371d0fa'],
     }),
-    ('boto3', '1.34.51', {
-        'checksums': ['2cd9463e738a184cbce8a6824027c22163c5f73e277a35ff5aa0fb0e845b4301'],
+    ('aioitertools', '0.11.0', {
+        'checksums': ['42c68b8dd3a69c2bf7f2233bf7df4bb58b557bca5252ac02ed5187bbc67d6831'],
     }),
-    ('aiobotocore', '2.12.1', {
-        'checksums': ['8706b28f16f93c541f6ed50352115a79d8f3499539f8d0bb70aa0f7a5379c1fe'],
+    ('aiobotocore', '2.3.4', {
+        'checksums': ['6554ebea5764f66f4be544a4fcaa0953ee80e600dd7bd818ba4893d72bf12bfb'],
     }),
-    ('s3fs', '2024.2.0', {
-        'checksums': ['f8064f522ad088b56b043047c825734847c0269df19f2613c956d4c20de15b62'],
+    ('s3fs', '2022.7.1', {
+        'checksums': ['4883d682cb96b769fca568dbbcaa33ff457ac8077a03af221e6f253adac05771'],
     }),
-    ('torchmetrics', '1.3.1', {
-        'checksums': ['8d371f7597a1a5eb02d5f2ed59642d6fef09093926997ce91e18b1147cc8defa'],
+    ('torchmetrics', '0.9.3', {
+        'checksums': ['4ebfd2466021db26397636966ee1a195d3b340ba5d71bb258e764340dfc2476f'],
     }),
     ('pytorch-lightning', version, {
-        'checksums': ['aa3be30c9109239a371748565a7f4b7b41ea1395725c30e04426cf946b3e2745'],
+        'checksums': ['c2771f966fc1b909cdfd1d603a87b8c84a3d5ff7aacf35b2c0260f697ec0c8be'],
     }),
 ]
 
-sanity_check_paths = {
-    'files': [],
-    'dirs': ['bin', 'lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/dateutil-stubs'],
-}
-
 sanity_pip_check = True
 
 moduleclass = 'lib'

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/pycodestyle/pycodestyle-2.11.1-foss-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/pycodestyle/pycodestyle-2.11.1-foss-2022b.eb
index 66965820b1..562cc2adea 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/pycodestyle/pycodestyle-2.11.1-foss-2023a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/pycodestyle/pycodestyle-2.11.1-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ version = '2.11.1'
 homepage = "https://pycodestyle.readthedocs.io"
 description = """pycodestyle is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
 checksums = ['41ba0e7afc9752dfb53ced5489e89f8186be00e599e712660695b7a75ff2663f']
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
 ]
 
 download_dep_fail = True

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/Redis/Redis-7.4.1-GCCcore-13.3.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/Redis/Redis-7.2.3-GCCcore-12.2.0.eb
index 299d66ea0b..823ff30517 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/Redis/Redis-7.4.1-GCCcore-13.3.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/Redis/Redis-7.2.3-GCCcore-12.2.0.eb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
 
 name = 'Redis'
-version = '7.4.1'
+version = '7.2.3'
 
 homepage = 'https://redis.io'
 description = """Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as
@@ -12,22 +12,19 @@ Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions, and different levels of on-disk
 persistence, and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic
 partitioning with Redis Cluster."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '13.3.0'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '12.2.0'}
 
 source_urls = ['https://download.redis.io/releases']
 sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
-checksums = ['bc34b878eb89421bbfca6fa78752343bf37af312a09eb0fae47c9575977dfaa2']
+checksums = ['3e2b196d6eb4ddb9e743088bfc2915ccbb42d40f5a8a3edd8cb69c716ec34be7']
 
 builddependencies = [
-    ('binutils', '2.42'),
-    ('pkgconf', '2.2.0'),
+    ('pkgconf', '1.9.3'),
+    ('binutils', '2.39'),
 ]
 
 skipsteps = ['configure']
 
-# tests must be run from a local filesystem
-# runtest = 'test'
-
 installopts = 'PREFIX="%(installdir)s"'
 
 sanity_check_paths = {

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/redis-py/redis-py-5.1.1-GCCcore-13.3.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/redis-py/redis-py-5.0.1-GCCcore-12.2.0.eb
index 257c413dba..3c71c6c719 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/redis-py/redis-py-5.1.1-GCCcore-13.3.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/redis-py/redis-py-5.0.1-GCCcore-12.2.0.eb
@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
 easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
 
 name = 'redis-py'
-version = '5.1.1'
+version = '5.0.1'
 
 homepage = 'https://github.com/redis/redis-py'
 description = "The Python interface to the Redis key-value store."
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '13.3.0'}
-
-builddependencies = [
-    ('binutils', '2.42'),
-]
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '12.2.0'}
 
+builddependencies = [('binutils', '2.39')]
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.12.3'),
-    ('typing-extensions', '4.11.0'),
-    ('Redis', '7.4.1'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('typing-extensions', '4.9.0'),
+    ('Redis', '7.2.3'),
 ]
 
 use_pip = True
+sanity_pip_check = True
 
 exts_list = [
     ('async-timeout', '4.0.3', {
@@ -27,11 +25,9 @@ exts_list = [
     (name, version, {
         'modulename': 'redis',
         'source_urls': ['https://github.com/redis/redis-py/archive/refs/tags/'],
-        'sources': ['v%(version)s.tar.gz'],
-        'checksums': ['e1df6dd98eb2bdbc68dabb4b19a5167468ae36dbb53a1c777d5cf7ba8345450e'],
+        'sources': [{'download_filename': 'v%(version)s.tar.gz', 'filename': SOURCE_TAR_GZ}],
+        'checksums': ['0a40afc824a5a3b465db4ba868a056a83779482f22d7d003c48fca230d9fe93a'],
     }),
 ]
 
-sanity_pip_check = True
-
 moduleclass = "data"

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SHAP/SHAP-0.43.0-foss-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SHAP/SHAP-0.43.0-foss-2022b.eb
index 6be374eb21..cca163e6ee 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SHAP/SHAP-0.43.0-foss-2023a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SHAP/SHAP-0.43.0-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ description = """SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) is a game theoretic approa
  machine learning model. It connects optimal credit allocation with local explanations using the classic Shapley
  values from game theory and their related extensions."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.07'),
-    ('scikit-learn', '1.3.1'),
-    ('tqdm', '4.66.1'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
+    ('scikit-learn', '1.2.1'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.64.1'),
     ('numba', '0.58.1'),
 ]
 

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/spaCy/spaCy-3.7.4-foss-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/spaCy/spaCy-3.7.4-foss-2022b.eb
index e8c79ceb6b..825f9f573c 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/spaCy/spaCy-3.7.4-foss-2023a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/spaCy/spaCy-3.7.4-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -6,17 +6,12 @@ version = '3.7.4'
 homepage = 'https://spacy.io/'
 description = "Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python."
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
-
-builddependencies = [
-    ('poetry', '1.7.1'),
-    ('hatchling', '1.18.0'),
-]
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.07'),
-    ('tqdm', '4.66.1'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.64.1'),
     ('pydantic', '2.5.3'),
 ]
 

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/synthcity/synthcity-0.2.4-foss-2022a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/synthcity/synthcity-0.2.10-foss-2022b.eb
index 2d2a1ab0f5..cd64d6ed49 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/synthcity/synthcity-0.2.4-foss-2022a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/synthcity/synthcity-0.2.10-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -1,167 +1,242 @@
 easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
 
 name = 'synthcity'
-version = '0.2.4'
+version = '0.2.10'
 
-local_pytorch_version = '1.12.0'
+local_pytorch_version = '1.13.1'
 
 homepage = 'https://github.com/vanderschaarlab/synthcity'
 description = """A library for generating and evaluating synthetic tabular data."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
+builddependencies = [('hypothesis', '6.68.2')]  # for numpy 1.23.5
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.10.4'),
-    ('lifelines', '0.27.4'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2022.05'),
-    ('pydantic', '1.10.4'),
-    ('Redis', '7.0.8'),
-    ('scikit-learn', '1.1.2'),
-    ('SHAP', '0.41.0'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('lifelines', '0.27.7'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
+    ('pydantic', '2.5.3'),
+    ('Redis', '7.2.3'),
+    ('scikit-learn', '1.2.1'),
+    ('SHAP', '0.43.0'),
     ('PyTorch', local_pytorch_version),
     ('XGBoost', '1.7.2'),
-    ('tqdm', '4.64.0'),
-    ('Mako', '1.2.0'),
-    ('PyYAML', '6.0'),
-    ('fastai', '2.7.10'),
-    ('h5py', '3.7.0'),
-    ('networkx', '2.8.4'),
-    ('protobuf', '3.19.4'),
-    ('Arrow', '8.0.0'),
-    ('pybind11', '2.9.2'),
-    ('PyTorch-Lightning', '1.8.4'),
-    ('spaCy', '3.4.4'),
-    ('tensorboard', '2.10.0'),
-    ('torchvision', '0.13.1'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.64.1'),
+    ('HF-Datasets', '2.14.4'),
+    ('Transformers', '4.30.2'),
+    ('fastai', '2.7.15'),
+    ('h5py', '3.8.0'),
     ('Brotli-python', '1.0.9'),
-    ('statsmodels', '0.13.1'),
-    ('imbalanced-learn', '0.10.1'),
-    ('Greenlet', '2.0.2'),
-    ('Optuna', '3.1.0'),
-    ('Cython', '0.29.33'),
-    ('cython-blis', '0.9.1'),
-    ('torchtext', '0.14.1', '-PyTorch-%s' % local_pytorch_version),
-    ('IPython', '8.5.0'),
-    ('MONAI', '1.0.1'),
+    ('statsmodels', '0.14.0'),
+    ('imbalanced-learn', '0.12.3'),
+    ('Optuna', '3.5.0'),
+    ('MONAI', '1.3.0'),
+    ('DECAF-synthetic-data', '0.1.6'),
+    ('PyTorch-Lightning', '1.8.4'),
+    # TESTS
+    ('JupyterNotebook', '7.0.3'),
+    ('python-igraph', '0.10.6'),
+    ('coverage', '7.2.3'),
+    ('py-cpuinfo', '9.0.0'),
+    ('pycodestyle', '2.11.1'),
 ]
 
-sanity_pip_check = True
-use_pip = True
+# unpin pydantic version restriction
+local_preinstallopts = "sed -i 's/pydantic<2.0/pydantic/' %(builddir)s/%(name)s/%(name)s-%(version)s/setup.cfg && "
+
+# ignore the failing part of ddpm test - seems constraints are wrong
+# see https://github.com/vanderschaarlab/synthcity/blob/v0.2.10/tests/plugins/generic/test_ddpm.py#L114
+local_pretestopts = (
+    "sed -i '138,144d' %(builddir)s/%(name)s/%(name)s-%(version)s/tests/plugins/generic/test_ddpm.py && "
+)
+# solve problem with PyTorch-Lightning _validate_srun_variables method
+# see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/21141#issuecomment-2318854045
+local_pretestopts += "export SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE=$SLURM_NTASKS && "
+
+# fix invalid syntax of xgbse/setup.py
+local_xgbse_preinstallopts = r"sed -i -e '45,49d' -e 's/pandas>=1.0.\*/pandas>=1.0.0/' setup.py && "
 
 exts_list = [
-    ('decaf_synthetic_data', '0.1.6', {
-        'modulename': 'decaf',
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['dc51502f9f72b3fbdbef697238d72ae6b8457f76efc9763a747970ba543d4e0f'],
+    ('cfgv', '3.4.0', {
+        'checksums': ['e52591d4c5f5dead8e0f673fb16db7949d2cfb3f7da4582893288f0ded8fe560'],
     }),
-    ('feather-format', '0.4.1', {
-        'modulename': 'feather',
-        'checksums': ['45f67e3745d394d4f160ca6d636bbfd4f8b68d01199dc1649b6e487d3e878903'],
+    ('pyflakes', '3.2.0', {
+        'checksums': ['1c61603ff154621fb2a9172037d84dca3500def8c8b630657d1701f026f8af3f'],
     }),
-    ('fflows', '0.0.3', {
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['18de7a7b98e3708ff2d5ae9f10fad625740230c4de6447906b7ca477667b78fb'],
+    ('mccabe', '0.7.0', {
+        'checksums': ['348e0240c33b60bbdf4e523192ef919f28cb2c3d7d5c7794f74009290f236325'],
     }),
-    ('fsspec', '2022.7.1', {
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['36c5a8e7c4fc20cf32ef6934ac0a122accc8a593ddc8478d30c3ca4dbbd95500'],
+    ('restructuredtext_lint', '1.4.0', {
+        'checksums': ['1b235c0c922341ab6c530390892eb9e92f90b9b75046063e047cacfb0f050c45'],
     }),
-    ('functorch', '0.2.0', {
-        'source_urls': ['https://github.com/pytorch/%(name)s/archive/'],
-        'sources': ['v%(version)s.tar.gz'],
-        'checksums': ['ea6446b60d5e0847140e1a0dcb91d8a7de2b5844bba7c3f7560eb5020a05881f'],
+    ('stevedore', '5.2.0', {
+        'checksums': ['46b93ca40e1114cea93d738a6c1e365396981bb6bb78c27045b7587c9473544d'],
     }),
-    ('geomloss', '0.2.5', {
-        'checksums': ['dcd851cc3c9625f384d4c18d235a790821162c34a2be503a61966b355b98456e'],
+    ('nodeenv', '1.9.1', {
+        'checksums': ['6ec12890a2dab7946721edbfbcd91f3319c6ccc9aec47be7c7e6b7011ee6645f'],
     }),
-    ('inflate64', '0.3.1', {
-        'checksums': ['b52dd8fefd2ba179e5dfa18d6eca7e2fc822584616271c039d5ef1f9ca90c71c'],
+    ('identify', '2.6.0', {
+        'checksums': ['cb171c685bdc31bcc4c1734698736a7d5b6c8bf2e0c15117f4d469c8640ae5cf'],
     }),
-    ('keopscore', '2.1.1', {
-        'checksums': ['07b4d254a28a9d4a43153663856677263dd7112912efacbad83c2a76ea0836f0'],
+    ('mypy_extensions', '1.0.0', {
+        'checksums': ['75dbf8955dc00442a438fc4d0666508a9a97b6bd41aa2f0ffe9d2f2725af0782'],
     }),
-    ('loguru', '0.6.0', {
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['4e2414d534a2ab57573365b3e6d0234dfb1d84b68b7f3b948e6fb743860a77c3'],
+    ('pytest-cov', '5.0.0', {
+        'checksums': ['5837b58e9f6ebd335b0f8060eecce69b662415b16dc503883a02f45dfeb14857'],
     }),
-    ('multivolumefile', '0.2.3', {
+    ('bandit', '1.7.9', {
+        'checksums': ['7c395a436743018f7be0a4cbb0a4ea9b902b6d87264ddecf8cfdc73b4f78ff61'],
+    }),
+    ('black', '22.12.0', {
+        'checksums': ['229351e5a18ca30f447bf724d007f890f97e13af070bb6ad4c0a441cd7596a2f'],
+    }),
+    ('black-nb', '0.7', {
+        'checksums': ['8742a4f7c728302c91954325168d779f9444f8e3c31b19598ee8e98fc4bf4782'],
+    }),
+    ('darglint', '1.8.1', {
+        'checksums': ['080d5106df149b199822e7ee7deb9c012b49891538f14a11be681044f0bb20da'],
+    }),
+    ('doc8', '1.1.1', {
+        'checksums': ['d97a93e8f5a2efc4713a0804657dedad83745cca4cd1d88de9186f77f9776004'],
+    }),
+    ('flake8', '7.0.0', {
+        'checksums': ['33f96621059e65eec474169085dc92bf26e7b2d47366b70be2f67ab80dc25132'],
+    }),
+    ('isort', '5.13.2', {
+        'checksums': ['48fdfcb9face5d58a4f6dde2e72a1fb8dcaf8ab26f95ab49fab84c2ddefb0109'],
+    }),
+    ('pytest-benchmark', '4.0.0', {
+        'checksums': ['fb0785b83efe599a6a956361c0691ae1dbb5318018561af10f3e915caa0048d1'],
+    }),
+    ('pytest-xprocess', '1.0.2', {
+        'modulename': 'xprocess',
+        'checksums': ['15e270637586eabc56755ee5fcc81c48bdb46ba7ef7c0d5b1b64302d080cc60f'],
+    }),
+    ('pre_commit', '3.7.1', {
+        'checksums': ['8ca3ad567bc78a4972a3f1a477e94a79d4597e8140a6e0b651c5e33899c3654a'],
+    }),
+    ('typing_extensions', '4.9.0', {
+        'checksums': ['23478f88c37f27d76ac8aee6c905017a143b0b1b886c3c9f66bc2fd94f9f5783'],
+    }),
+    ('fflows', '0.0.3', {
         'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['237f4353b60af1703087cf7725755a1f6fcaeeea48421e1896940cd1c920d678'],
+        'checksums': ['18de7a7b98e3708ff2d5ae9f10fad625740230c4de6447906b7ca477667b78fb'],
+    }),
+    ('geomloss', '0.2.6', {
+        'checksums': ['491c47085c5001b2cb6128ea541fd2d0a8808ae50e88a0798c7853c9d995faeb'],
     }),
     ('nflows', '0.14', {
         'checksums': ['6299844a62f9999fcdf2d95cb2d01c091a50136bd17826e303aba646b2d11b55'],
     }),
-    ('opacus', '1.3.0', {
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['ef5d6f2aab56901d714ee56fd177a3627d14d820b2ec49cb8bc8a6f52c326507'],
-    }),
     ('opt_einsum', '3.3.0', {
         'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
         'checksums': ['2455e59e3947d3c275477df7f5205b30635e266fe6dc300e3d9f9646bfcea147'],
     }),
-    ('pgmpy', '0.1.21', {
+    ('opacus', '1.4.0', {
+        'checksums': ['7a41d49c34af8e4308189bc8c2b22e65cf1edc0373477a02a43ccd957bac970d'],
+    }),
+    ('pgmpy', '0.1.25', {
         'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['3c442320e7822892813b4eb56e048729d3bde053a707b5bb032685af6b372246'],
+        'checksums': ['7c4fb15e4c0fd0310160a6a77297d6db382bd18f6ff35fcd0458c3cbd42caf78'],
     }),
-    ('py7zr', '0.20.4', {
-        'checksums': ['1d01f98ea1e1f5c49940358691b2076f9a5848056426541e783de33834f59e21'],
+    ('feather-format', '0.4.1', {
+        'modulename': 'feather',
+        'checksums': ['45f67e3745d394d4f160ca6d636bbfd4f8b68d01199dc1649b6e487d3e878903'],
     }),
-    ('pybcj', '1.0.1', {
-        'modulename': 'bcj',
-        'checksums': ['8b682ed08caabfb7c042d4be083e28ddc692afb1deff5567111f8855071b75c3'],
+    ('inflate64', '1.0.0', {
+        'checksums': ['3278827b803cf006a1df251f3e13374c7d26db779e5a33329cc11789b804bc2d'],
     }),
-    ('pycox', '0.2.3', {
+    ('multivolumefile', '0.2.3', {
         'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['9ea3c64a4a650ccf6c96cf512712de330f2d75de32122d86995c7cd37ff105d1'],
+        'checksums': ['237f4353b60af1703087cf7725755a1f6fcaeeea48421e1896940cd1c920d678'],
     }),
-    ('pycryptodomex', '3.17', {
-        'modulename': 'Crypto',
-        'checksums': ['0af93aad8d62e810247beedef0261c148790c52f3cd33643791cc6396dd217c1'],
+    ('pybcj', '1.0.2', {
+        'modulename': 'bcj',
+        'checksums': ['c7f5bef7f47723c53420e377bc64d2553843bee8bcac5f0ad076ab1524780018'],
     }),
-    ('pykeops', '2.1.1', {
-        'checksums': ['1931823c746345ce5a5805adad6baa1add772c6fe1800375f7f9a3ddb38b6f71'],
+    ('pycryptodomex', '3.20.0', {
+        'modulename': 'Crypto',
+        'checksums': ['7a710b79baddd65b806402e14766c721aee8fb83381769c27920f26476276c1e'],
     }),
     ('pyppmd', '1.0.0', {
         'checksums': ['075c9bd297e3b0a87dd7aeabca7fee668218acbe69ecc1c6511064558de8840f'],
     }),
-    ('pyts', '0.12.0', {
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['acd66b0cf1fd17d9ce6449335f5da30701f65fdee185d4b918726b62ca6af79d'],
-    }),
-    ('pyzstd', '0.15.4', {
-        'checksums': ['de07ac54f57642f186732075cdce2be3d4a30228c3b17a6d8c6053765dc6eec8'],
+    ('pyzstd', '0.16.0', {
+        'checksums': ['fd43a0ae38ae15223fb1057729001829c3336e90f4acf04cf12ebdec33346658'],
     }),
-    ('texttable', '1.6.7', {
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py2.py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['b7b68139aa8a6339d2c320ca8b1dc42d13a7831a346b446cb9eb385f0c76310c'],
+    ('texttable', '1.7.0', {
+        'checksums': ['2d2068fb55115807d3ac77a4ca68fa48803e84ebb0ee2340f858107a36522638'],
     }),
-    ('thinc', '8.1.9', {
-        'checksums': ['8a1e65529c6d0796271d2a7e5ca6ea013fcb7dad69ec609d5093a25808107f51'],
-        # we are using blis 0.9.1
-        # thinc has problems with blis>0.8.0 on Windows only (https://github.com/explosion/thinc/pull/772)
-        'preinstallopts': 'sed -i "s/blis>=0.7.8,<0.8.0/blis>=0.7.8/g" setup.cfg && ',
+    ('py7zr', '0.20.6', {
+        'checksums': ['d036dee11fce69ad8d4fa86025ccfc4a3511ec27ee1c6b5bd8d6759313dbd077'],
     }),
     ('torchtuples', '0.2.2', {
         'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
         'checksums': ['186625230a149cc09f64116d51b203ffefe78160f5a0445adad195893663f55b'],
     }),
-    ('tsai', '0.3.5', {
+    ('pycox', '0.2.3', {
         'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['f5b888f7b968d1826a74eab3b8fa9559c6985d8532c017a4d85809e6c8e6cadd'],
+        'checksums': ['9ea3c64a4a650ccf6c96cf512712de330f2d75de32122d86995c7cd37ff105d1'],
+    }),
+    ('keopscore', '2.2.3', {
+        'checksums': ['64d5dad1e8c806d7070cdc60e48fd5bbf006f2bf1afd39ad3fa5e9fb213517d2'],
+    }),
+    ('pykeops', '2.2.3', {
+        'checksums': ['2e2cba1de5e05c35559957a14f41cb5165dc667cc51b3b2118d7e0027eb435a1'],
+    }),
+    ('pyts', '0.13.0', {
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
+        'checksums': ['b49608267b686ea693dba31316ef2b22ad73ea29b27144696c347809ecd5ad62'],
+    }),
+    ('tsai', '0.3.9', {
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
+        'checksums': ['0e6460e9ff075176c8af25ef90444ef2e287bc5fe5510e2a0f427e4d0b37ebc0'],
+    }),
+    ('accelerate', '0.31.0', {
+        'checksums': ['b5199865b26106ccf9205acacbe8e4b3b428ad585e7c472d6a46f6fb75b6c176'],
+    }),
+    ('be_great', '0.0.7', {
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
+        'checksums': ['824f10482581f5211d3a435d8b14adcc6c21b38d952f00b6a792fc7c089788b1'],
     }),
     ('xgbse', '0.2.3', {
+        'preinstallopts': local_xgbse_preinstallopts,
         'source_urls': ['https://github.com/loft-br/xgboost-survival-embeddings/archive/'],
-        'sources': ['v%(version)s.tar.gz'],
+        'sources': [{'download_filename': 'v%(version)s.tar.gz', 'filename': SOURCE_TAR_GZ}],
         'checksums': ['9e6b71539b2b533c00eddfe7681cdd541f393d9573594eca358d263b141c127d'],
     }),
+    ('arfpy', '0.1.1', {
+        'checksums': ['88170d5e72638b0dbfec28cfbdfee02e97bd6a06d5a636e960acd5d90d480707'],
+    }),
+    ('numpy', '1.23.5', {
+        'patches': [
+            {'name': 'numpy-1.20.3_fix-fortran-compiler-error.patch', 'alt_location': 'SciPy-bundle'},
+            {'name': 'numpy-1.22.3_disable-broken-override-test.patch', 'alt_location': 'SciPy-bundle'},
+        ],
+        'checksums': [
+            {'numpy-1.23.5.tar.gz': '1b1766d6f397c18153d40015ddfc79ddb715cabadc04d2d228d4e5a8bc4ded1a'},
+            {'numpy-1.20.3_fix-fortran-compiler-error.patch':
+             '016e0d02ffabe013248c4fd203a4456edee76839f747c05daf92ac1fe9925189'},
+            {'numpy-1.22.3_disable-broken-override-test.patch':
+             '9c589bb073b28b25ff45eb3c63c57966aa508dd8b318d0b885b6295271e4983c'},
+        ],
+    }),
     (name, version, {
-        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s-py3-none-any.whl',
-        'checksums': ['424448d420331743458bf63558a06a5fbefbad19392718cd0a755d4a4878476c'],
+        'preinstallopts': local_preinstallopts,
+        'source_urls': ['https://github.com/vanderschaarlab/synthcity/archive/'],
+        'sources': [{'download_filename': 'v%(version)s.tar.gz', 'filename': SOURCE_TAR_GZ}],
+        'testinstall': True,
+        'runtest': local_pretestopts + 'cd tests && pytest -vvvs -m "not slow" --durations=50',
+        'checksums': ['122a8546cad35e3ac5c74cf81281252dec4dd3c7b1d7afe0f45ef785f89cc682'],
     }),
 ]
 
+sanity_pip_check = True
+use_pip = True
+
 sanity_check_commands = [
     "python -c 'from synthcity.plugins import Plugins'",
+    "python -c 'from decaf import DECAF, DataModule'",
 ]
 
 moduleclass = 'lib'

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/torchtext/torchtext-0.14.1-foss-2022a-PyTorch-1.12.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/torchtext/torchtext-0.14.1-foss-2022b-PyTorch-1.13.1.eb
index 4a64965243..7903b8102f 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/torchtext/torchtext-0.14.1-foss-2022a-PyTorch-1.12.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/torchtext/torchtext-0.14.1-foss-2022b-PyTorch-1.13.1.eb
@@ -2,37 +2,37 @@ easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
 
 name = 'torchtext'
 version = '0.14.1'
-local_pytorch_version = '1.12.0'
+local_pytorch_version = '1.13.1'
 versionsuffix = '-PyTorch-%s' % local_pytorch_version
 
 homepage = 'https://github.com/pytorch/text'
 description = "Data loaders and abstractions for text and NLP"
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022a'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 # Sources are no longer available in PyPI, it only has wheels
 source_urls = ['https://github.com/pytorch/text/archive/']
-sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+sources = [{'download_filename': 'v%(version)s.tar.gz', 'filename': '%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz'}]
 patches = ['torchtext-0.14.1_deps_fix.patch']
 checksums = [
-    {'v0.14.1.tar.gz': 'fd1ef3da7d9c20408c740f7dc7d02ad52a6048b46368355a1a7326d3bc4f2e63'},
+    {'torchtext-0.14.1.tar.gz': 'fd1ef3da7d9c20408c740f7dc7d02ad52a6048b46368355a1a7326d3bc4f2e63'},
     {'torchtext-0.14.1_deps_fix.patch': '3830747bfb3624a94efa8c8132b1764277b38f3b80cc9f452fba2475465d7ec1'},
 ]
 
 builddependencies = [
-    ('RE2', '2022-06-01'),
-    ('binutils', '2.38'),
+    ('RE2', '2023-03-01'),
+    ('binutils', '2.39'),
     ('CMake', '3.24.3'),
 ]
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.10.4'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2022.05'),
-    ('SentencePiece', '0.1.97'),
-    ('tqdm', '4.64.0'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
+    ('SentencePiece', '0.1.99'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.64.1'),
     ('PyTorch', local_pytorch_version),
-    ('double-conversion', '3.2.0'),
-    ('utf8proc', '2.7.0'),
+    ('double-conversion', '3.2.1'),
+    ('utf8proc', '2.8.0'),
 ]
 
 download_dep_fail = True,

diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/x/XGBoost/XGBoost-2.1.1-gfbf-2023b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/x/XGBoost/XGBoost-1.7.2-foss-2022b.eb
index 91e9be0529..937201a36b 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/x/XGBoost/XGBoost-2.1.1-gfbf-2023b.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/x/XGBoost/XGBoost-1.7.2-foss-2022b.eb
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
 
 name = 'XGBoost'
-version = '2.1.1'
+version = '1.7.2'
 
 homepage = 'https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost'
 description = """XGBoost is an optimized distributed gradient boosting library designed to be highly efficient,
  flexible and portable."""
 
-toolchain = {'name': 'gfbf', 'version': '2023b'}
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
 
 sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
-checksums = ['4b1729837f9f1ba88a32ef1be3f8efb860fee6454a68719b196dc88032c23d97']
+checksums = ['f1a749aedb9330afc48007cc78b8bbbbea35ce372f48a2735f9c71bbc7b8dcfb']
 
-builddependencies = [
-    ('CMake', '3.27.6'),
-    ('hatchling', '1.18.0'),
-]
+builddependencies = [('CMake', '3.24.3')]
 
 dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.11.5'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.11'),
+    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
 ]
 
 use_pip = True
 download_dep_fail = True
 sanity_pip_check = True
 
-moduleclass = 'ai'
+# use the parallel parameter from EB instead of total procs in the system
+preinstallopts = "sed -i 's/nproc = os.cpu_count.*$/nproc = %(parallel)s/' setup.py &&"
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'