diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
index 2db3dbd98..d97f348f1 100644
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 pytest-django~=4.9.0
 pytest-asyncio~=0.24.0
 pytest-cov~=5.0.0
-openwisp-utils[qa,selenium]~=1.1.0
-channels_redis~=4.2.0
+openwisp-utils[qa,selenium]~=1.1.1
+channels_redis~=4.2.1
 django_redis~=5.4.0
 mock-ssh-server~=0.9.1
 responses~=0.25.3
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index dbbea6a9d..710a789e7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 django-sortedm2m~=4.0.0
 django-reversion~=5.1.0
 django-taggit~=4.0.0
-netjsonconfig @ https://github.com/openwisp/netjsonconfig/tarball/master
+netjsonconfig~=1.1.0
 django-x509~=1.2.0
 django-loci~=1.1.0
 django-flat-json-widget~=0.3.0
-openwisp-users @ https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-users/tarball/master
-openwisp-utils[celery]~=1.1.0
-openwisp-notifications @ https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-notifications/tarball/master
-openwisp-ipam @ https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-ipam/tarball/master
+openwisp-users~=1.1.0
+openwisp-utils[celery]~=1.1.1
+openwisp-notifications~=1.1.0
+openwisp-ipam~=1.1.0
 djangorestframework-gis~=1.1
 paramiko[ed25519]~=3.5.0
 scp~=0.15.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 74b609af0..dc4639959 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-import os
-import sys
-
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 from openwisp_controller import get_version
@@ -26,19 +23,6 @@ def get_install_requires():
     return requirements
 
 
-if sys.argv[-1] == 'publish':
-    # delete any *.pyc, *.pyo and __pycache__
-    os.system('find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf')
-    os.system('python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel')
-    os.system('twine upload -s dist/*')
-    os.system('rm -rf dist build')
-    args = {'version': get_version()}
-    print('You probably want to also tag the version now:')
-    print('  git tag -a %(version)s -m "version %(version)s"' % args)
-    print('  git push --tags')
-    sys.exit()
-
-
 setup(
     name="openwisp-controller",
     version=get_version(),