diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..27e9889c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# This workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests and lint with a single version of Python
+# For more information see: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-python
+
+name: Python application
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["pypy3.10", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - name: Display Python version
+        run: python -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install flake8 pytest
+        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    - name: Test with pytest
+      run: |
+        pytest
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 9cb959844..67e4de451 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
     # must mock PyQt in order to get autodoc import running
     MOCK_MODULES = ['numpy', 'scipy', 'qtpy', 'pyqtgraph', 'pandas',
-                    'asyncio', 'quamash', 'scipy.signal', 'scipy.fftpack',
+                    'asyncio', 'qasync', 'scipy.signal', 'scipy.fftpack',
                     'paramiko', 'scp']
     sys.modules.update((mod_name, MagicMock()) for mod_name in MOCK_MODULES)
 
diff --git a/docs/source/developer_guide/api/asynchronous/index.rst b/docs/source/developer_guide/api/asynchronous/index.rst
index 1503c01ef..56e0a5411 100644
--- a/docs/source/developer_guide/api/asynchronous/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/developer_guide/api/asynchronous/index.rst
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ function). Let's see that on an example:
     %pylab qt # in a notebook, we need the qt event loop to run in the background
     import asyncio
     import scipy.fftpack
-    import quamash # quamash allows to use the asyncio syntax of python 3 with the Qt event loop. Not sure how mainstream the library is...
+    import qasync # qasync allows to use the asyncio syntax of python 3 with the Qt event loop. Not sure how mainstream the library is...
     from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
     import asyncio
-    loop = quamash.QEventLoop()
+    loop = qasync.QEventLoop()
     asyncio.set_event_loop(loop) # set the qt event loop as the loop to be used by asyncio
 
 
@@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ practice, the code execution is probably extremely similar)
     %pylab qt
     import asyncio
     import scipy.fftpack
-    import quamash
+    import qasync
     from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
     APP = QtGui.QApplication.instance()
     import asyncio
     from promise import Promise
-    loop = quamash.QEventLoop()
+    loop = qasync.QEventLoop()
     asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
 
 
@@ -187,10 +187,10 @@ would easily do the trick:
     %pylab qt
     import asyncio
     import scipy.fftpack
-    import quamash
+    import qasync
     from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
     import asyncio
-    loop = quamash.QEventLoop()
+    loop = qasync.QEventLoop()
     asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
 
 
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/old_CI_config_files/.travis.yml
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 100%
rename from .travis.yml
rename to old_CI_config_files/.travis.yml
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/old_CI_config_files/Dockerfile
similarity index 100%
rename from Dockerfile
rename to old_CI_config_files/Dockerfile
diff --git a/Jenkinsfile b/old_CI_config_files/Jenkinsfile
similarity index 98%
rename from Jenkinsfile
rename to old_CI_config_files/Jenkinsfile
index 9c60d714b..acb6c61fc 100644
--- a/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/old_CI_config_files/Jenkinsfile
@@ -1,175 +1,175 @@
-#!groovy
-
-
-
-def getRepoURL() {
-  sh "git config --get remote.origin.url > .git/remote-url"
-  return readFile(".git/remote-url").trim()
-}
-
-def getCommitSha() {
-  sh "git rev-parse HEAD > .git/current-commit"
-  return readFile(".git/current-commit").trim()
-}
-
-void setBuildStatus(String message, String state) {
-  step([
-      $class: "GitHubCommitStatusSetter",
-      reposSource: [$class: "ManuallyEnteredRepositorySource", url: getRepoURL()],
-      contextSource: [$class: "ManuallyEnteredCommitContextSource", context: "ci/jenkins/build-status"],
-      errorHandlers: [[$class: "ChangingBuildStatusErrorHandler", result: "UNSTABLE"]],
-      statusResultSource: [ $class: "ConditionalStatusResultSource", results: [[$class: "AnyBuildResult", message: message, state: state]] ]
-  ]);
-}
-
-
-pipeline {
-    triggers { pollSCM('*/1 * * * *') }
-
-    options {
-        // skipDefaultCheckout(true)  // rather do the checkout in all stages
-        // Keep the 10 most recent builds
-        buildDiscarder(logRotator(numToKeepStr: '10'))
-        timestamps()
-    }
-
-
-    environment {
-        REDPITAYA_HOSTNAME = "192.168.178.26"
-        //REDPITAYA_HOSTNAME = "rp-f03f3a"
-        //REDPITAYA_HOSTNAME = "nobody.justdied.com"
-        DOCKER_ARGS = '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
-        //NOSETESTS_COMMAND = 'nosetests pyrpl/test/test_ipython_notebook/test_ipython_kernel.py'
-        NOSETESTS_COMMAND = 'nosetests'
-        PYPI = credentials('f63335ce-493d-4caf-8ebe-d7e2629f79f3')
-        REDPITAYA = credentials('2bf38f88-833a-4624-9682-3a6f0a145d30')
-        REDPITAYA_USER = "$REDPITAYA_USR"
-        REDPITAYA_PASSWORD = "$REDPITAYA_PSW"
-
-    }
-
-    agent any
-
-    stages {
-        stage('Notify github that a build was started') {
-            agent any
-            steps { setBuildStatus("Jenkins build started...", "PENDING") }}
-        stage('Unit tests') { parallel {
-            stage('Python 3.7') {
-                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
-                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
-                steps { lock('redpitaya') {
-                    sh  ''' which python
-                            python -V
-                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
-                            conda list
-                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
-                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
-                            python setup.py install
-                        '''
-                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND" }}
-                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}
-            stage('Python 3.6') {
-                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
-                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.6' }}
-                steps { lock('redpitaya') {
-                    sh  ''' which python
-                            python -V
-                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
-                            conda list
-                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
-                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
-                            python setup.py install
-                        '''
-                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND"}}
-                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}
-            /*stage('Python 3.5') {
-                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
-                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.5' }}
-                steps {
-                    sh  ''' which python
-                            python -V
-                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
-                            conda list
-                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
-                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
-                            python setup.py install
-                        '''
-                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND"}
-                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}*/
-            stage('Python 2.7') {
-                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
-                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=2.7' }}
-                steps { lock('redpitaya') {
-                    sh  ''' which python
-                            python -V
-                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
-                            conda list
-                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
-                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
-                            python setup.py install
-                        '''
-                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND"}}
-                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}
-            stage('Linux binary') {
-                agent { dockerfile { args '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
-                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
-                steps { lock('fake_redpitaya') {
-                    sh  ''' apt-get install psmisc
-                            python setup.py install
-                            pip install https://github.com/lneuhaus/pyinstaller/tarball/develop
-                            pyinstaller pyrpl.spec
-                            mv dist/pyrpl ./pyrpl-linux-develop
-                            python .deploy_to_sourceforge.py pyrpl-linux-develop
-                            chmod 755 pyrpl-linux-develop
-                            (./pyrpl-linux-develop config=test_linux hostname=_FAKE_ &)
-                            PYRPL_PID=$!
-                            sleep 30
-                            killall -9 pyrpl-linux-develop
-                        '''
-                    //sh 'python .deploy_to_sourceforge.py pyrpl-linux-develop'
-                    }}
-                post { always { archiveArtifacts allowEmptyArchive: true, artifacts: 'pyrpl-linux-develop', fingerprint: true }}}
-            stage('pip wheel') {
-                agent { dockerfile { args '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
-                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
-                steps { lock('fake_redpitaya') {
-                    sh  ''' python setup.py install
-                            # convert readme file to rst for PyPI
-                            conda install pandoc
-                            pandoc --from=markdown --to=rst --output=README.rst README.md
-                            # make distributions for PyPI
-                            python setup.py sdist
-                            python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
-                            # upload to PyPI
-                            # twine upload dist/**/*.*
-                        '''}}
-                post { always { archiveArtifacts allowEmptyArchive: true, artifacts: 'dist/**/*.*', fingerprint: true}}}
-        }}
-        stage('Deploy') {
-            agent { dockerfile { args '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
-                         additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
-            when {
-                expression { currentBuild.result == null || currentBuild.result == 'SUCCESS'}}
-            steps {
-                sh  ''' python setup.py install
-                    '''}}
-    }
-    post {
-        failure {
-            emailext (
-                attachLog: true,
-                subject: "FAILED: Job '${env.JOB_NAME} [${env.BUILD_NUMBER}]'",
-                body: """<p>FAILED: Job '${env.JOB_NAME} [${env.BUILD_NUMBER}]':</p>
-                         <p>Check console output at <a href='${env.BUILD_URL}'>${env.JOB_NAME} [${env.BUILD_NUMBER}]</a></p>""",
-                compressLog: false,
-                recipientProviders: [requestor(), developers(), brokenTestsSuspects(), brokenBuildSuspects(), upstreamDevelopers(), culprits()],
-                replyTo: 'pyrpl.readthedocs.io@gmail.com',
-                to: 'pyrpl.readthedocs.io@gmail.com')
-            setBuildStatus("Build failed!", "FAILURE")
-            }
-        success { setBuildStatus("Build successful!", "SUCCESS") }
-        unstable { setBuildStatus("Build erroneous!", "ERROR") }
-    }
-}
-
+#!groovy
+
+
+
+def getRepoURL() {
+  sh "git config --get remote.origin.url > .git/remote-url"
+  return readFile(".git/remote-url").trim()
+}
+
+def getCommitSha() {
+  sh "git rev-parse HEAD > .git/current-commit"
+  return readFile(".git/current-commit").trim()
+}
+
+void setBuildStatus(String message, String state) {
+  step([
+      $class: "GitHubCommitStatusSetter",
+      reposSource: [$class: "ManuallyEnteredRepositorySource", url: getRepoURL()],
+      contextSource: [$class: "ManuallyEnteredCommitContextSource", context: "ci/jenkins/build-status"],
+      errorHandlers: [[$class: "ChangingBuildStatusErrorHandler", result: "UNSTABLE"]],
+      statusResultSource: [ $class: "ConditionalStatusResultSource", results: [[$class: "AnyBuildResult", message: message, state: state]] ]
+  ]);
+}
+
+
+pipeline {
+    triggers { pollSCM('*/1 * * * *') }
+
+    options {
+        // skipDefaultCheckout(true)  // rather do the checkout in all stages
+        // Keep the 10 most recent builds
+        buildDiscarder(logRotator(numToKeepStr: '10'))
+        timestamps()
+    }
+
+
+    environment {
+        REDPITAYA_HOSTNAME = "192.168.178.26"
+        //REDPITAYA_HOSTNAME = "rp-f03f3a"
+        //REDPITAYA_HOSTNAME = "nobody.justdied.com"
+        DOCKER_ARGS = '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
+        //NOSETESTS_COMMAND = 'nosetests pyrpl/test/test_ipython_notebook/test_ipython_kernel.py'
+        NOSETESTS_COMMAND = 'nosetests'
+        PYPI = credentials('f63335ce-493d-4caf-8ebe-d7e2629f79f3')
+        REDPITAYA = credentials('2bf38f88-833a-4624-9682-3a6f0a145d30')
+        REDPITAYA_USER = "$REDPITAYA_USR"
+        REDPITAYA_PASSWORD = "$REDPITAYA_PSW"
+
+    }
+
+    agent any
+
+    stages {
+        stage('Notify github that a build was started') {
+            agent any
+            steps { setBuildStatus("Jenkins build started...", "PENDING") }}
+        stage('Unit tests') { parallel {
+            stage('Python 3.7') {
+                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
+                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
+                steps { lock('redpitaya') {
+                    sh  ''' which python
+                            python -V
+                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
+                            conda list
+                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
+                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
+                            python setup.py install
+                        '''
+                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND" }}
+                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}
+            stage('Python 3.6') {
+                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
+                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.6' }}
+                steps { lock('redpitaya') {
+                    sh  ''' which python
+                            python -V
+                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
+                            conda list
+                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
+                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
+                            python setup.py install
+                        '''
+                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND"}}
+                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}
+            /*stage('Python 3.5') {
+                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
+                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.5' }}
+                steps {
+                    sh  ''' which python
+                            python -V
+                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
+                            conda list
+                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
+                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
+                            python setup.py install
+                        '''
+                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND"}
+                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}*/
+            stage('Python 2.7') {
+                agent { dockerfile { args "$DOCKER_ARGS"
+                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=2.7' }}
+                steps { lock('redpitaya') {
+                    sh  ''' which python
+                            python -V
+                            echo $PYTHON_VERSION
+                            conda list
+                            # use a custom global configfile adapted to the hardware for unit tests
+                            cp ./jenkins_global_config.yml ./pyrpl/config/global_config.yml
+                            python setup.py install
+                        '''
+                    sh "$NOSETESTS_COMMAND"}}
+                post { always { junit allowEmptyResults: true, testResults: 'unit_test_results.xml' }}}
+            stage('Linux binary') {
+                agent { dockerfile { args '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
+                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
+                steps { lock('fake_redpitaya') {
+                    sh  ''' apt-get install psmisc
+                            python setup.py install
+                            pip install https://github.com/lneuhaus/pyinstaller/tarball/develop
+                            pyinstaller pyrpl.spec
+                            mv dist/pyrpl ./pyrpl-linux-develop
+                            python .deploy_to_sourceforge.py pyrpl-linux-develop
+                            chmod 755 pyrpl-linux-develop
+                            (./pyrpl-linux-develop config=test_linux hostname=_FAKE_ &)
+                            PYRPL_PID=$!
+                            sleep 30
+                            killall -9 pyrpl-linux-develop
+                        '''
+                    //sh 'python .deploy_to_sourceforge.py pyrpl-linux-develop'
+                    }}
+                post { always { archiveArtifacts allowEmptyArchive: true, artifacts: 'pyrpl-linux-develop', fingerprint: true }}}
+            stage('pip wheel') {
+                agent { dockerfile { args '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
+                                     additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
+                steps { lock('fake_redpitaya') {
+                    sh  ''' python setup.py install
+                            # convert readme file to rst for PyPI
+                            conda install pandoc
+                            pandoc --from=markdown --to=rst --output=README.rst README.md
+                            # make distributions for PyPI
+                            python setup.py sdist
+                            python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
+                            # upload to PyPI
+                            # twine upload dist/**/*.*
+                        '''}}
+                post { always { archiveArtifacts allowEmptyArchive: true, artifacts: 'dist/**/*.*', fingerprint: true}}}
+        }}
+        stage('Deploy') {
+            agent { dockerfile { args '-u root -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 --net=host'
+                         additionalBuildArgs  '--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.7' }}
+            when {
+                expression { currentBuild.result == null || currentBuild.result == 'SUCCESS'}}
+            steps {
+                sh  ''' python setup.py install
+                    '''}}
+    }
+    post {
+        failure {
+            emailext (
+                attachLog: true,
+                subject: "FAILED: Job '${env.JOB_NAME} [${env.BUILD_NUMBER}]'",
+                body: """<p>FAILED: Job '${env.JOB_NAME} [${env.BUILD_NUMBER}]':</p>
+                         <p>Check console output at <a href='${env.BUILD_URL}'>${env.JOB_NAME} [${env.BUILD_NUMBER}]</a></p>""",
+                compressLog: false,
+                recipientProviders: [requestor(), developers(), brokenTestsSuspects(), brokenBuildSuspects(), upstreamDevelopers(), culprits()],
+                replyTo: 'pyrpl.readthedocs.io@gmail.com',
+                to: 'pyrpl.readthedocs.io@gmail.com')
+            setBuildStatus("Build failed!", "FAILURE")
+            }
+        success { setBuildStatus("Build successful!", "SUCCESS") }
+        unstable { setBuildStatus("Build erroneous!", "ERROR") }
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/old_CI_config_files/appveyor.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from appveyor.yml
rename to old_CI_config_files/appveyor.yml
diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/old_CI_config_files/azure-pipelines.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from azure-pipelines.yml
rename to old_CI_config_files/azure-pipelines.yml
diff --git a/travis_global_config.yml b/old_CI_config_files/travis_global_config.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from travis_global_config.yml
rename to old_CI_config_files/travis_global_config.yml
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 945c9b46d..6599181e1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,17 @@
-.
\ No newline at end of file
+ipython==8.12.3
+matplotlib==3.9.2
+nbconvert==7.16.4
+nbformat==5.10.4
+netifaces==0.11.0
+numpy==2.1.3
+pandas==2.2.3
+paramiko==3.4.0
+pyqtgraph==0.13.7
+pysine==0.9.2
+PyYAML==6.0.2
+qasync==0.27.1
+QtPy==2.4.2
+ruamel.base==1.0.0
+scipy==1.14.1
+scp==0.15.0
+six==1.16.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a632a088b..fca8e2ef8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ def read(fname):
                 #'ruamel.yaml' # temporarily disabled
                 'pandas',
                 'pyqtgraph',
-                'numpy>=1.9',
-                'paramiko>=2.0',
-                'nose>=1.0',
-                'PyQt5<=5.14',  # cannot be installed with pip, if in conda you can use conda install pyqt<5.15
-                'qtpy<=1.10',  # qtpy 1.11 contains breaking API changes related to pyqtSignals
+                'numpy',
+                'paramiko',
+                'nose',
+                'PyQt5',  # cannot be installed with pip, if in conda you can use conda install pyqt<5.15
+                'qtpy',  # qtpy 1.11 contains breaking API changes related to pyqtSignals
                 'nbconvert',
                 'jupyter-client']
 
@@ -131,10 +131,11 @@ def compile_server(): #gcc crosscompiler must be installed for this to work
       author_email='neuhaus@lkb.upmc.fr',
       url='http://lneuhaus.github.io/pyrpl/',
       license='MIT',
-      classifiers=['Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-                   'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
-                   'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
-                   'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
+      classifiers=['Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
+                   'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
+                   'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
+                   'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
+                   'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13',
                    'Programming Language :: C',
                    'Natural Language :: English',
                    'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',