diff --git a/.github/workflows/cd.yaml b/.github/workflows/cd.yaml
index 146ec4ed4..19b3d6cb3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cd.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cd.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: publish dev | Docker image
 on:
   push:
     branches:
-      - main
+      - dev
       - feature/*
     paths-ignore:
       - '**.md'
@@ -28,13 +28,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set environment variable for stage
         id: set-env
         run: |
-          if [[ "${{ github.ref }}" == "refs/heads/main" ]]; then
-            echo "STAGE=prd" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-            echo "::set-output name=stage::prd"
-          else
-            echo "STAGE=dev" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-            echo "::set-output name=stage::dev"
-          fi
+          echo "STAGE=dev" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "::set-output name=stage::dev"
 
       - name: Use output
         run: echo "The stage is ${{ steps.set-env.outputs.stage }}"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker_compose.yml b/.github/workflows/docker_compose.yml
index 93b41e5af..657f0c8c6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker_compose.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker_compose.yml
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+      - dev
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - main
+      - dev
 
 jobs:
   docker-compose-test:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/profiling.yaml b/.github/workflows/profiling.yaml
index 6ca09f9dc..93ed82f82 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/profiling.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/profiling.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 name: test | profiling
 
 on:
-  push
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [labeled, synchronize]
+
 jobs:
   profiler:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/py_lint.yml b/.github/workflows/py_lint.yml
index 713b23624..dfdcdfd8f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/py_lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/py_lint.yml
@@ -2,11 +2,8 @@
 name: lint | code & tests
 
 on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - devel
   workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_deduplication.yml b/.github/workflows/test_deduplication.yml
index 924aab130..77a7ddbb7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_deduplication.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_deduplication.yml
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ name: test | deduplication
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - main
     types: [labeled, synchronize]
 
 
@@ -16,14 +14,8 @@ env:
   RUNTIME__LOG_LEVEL: ERROR
 
 jobs:
-  get_docs_changes:
-    name: docs changes
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/get_docs_changes.yml
-
   run_deduplication_test:
     name: test
-    needs: get_docs_changes
-    if: needs.get_docs_changes.outputs.changes_outside_docs == 'true' && ${{ github.event.label.name == 'run-checks' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     defaults:
       run:
diff --git a/cognee/modules/graph/utils/retrieve_existing_edges.py b/cognee/modules/graph/utils/retrieve_existing_edges.py
index 50b5f3d7c..0959e79d8 100644
--- a/cognee/modules/graph/utils/retrieve_existing_edges.py
+++ b/cognee/modules/graph/utils/retrieve_existing_edges.py
@@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ async def retrieve_existing_edges(
     existing_edges_map = {}
 
     for edge in existing_edges:
-        existing_edges_map[edge[0] + edge[1] + edge[2]] = True
+        existing_edges_map[str(edge[0]) + str(edge[1]) + edge[2]] = True
 
     return existing_edges_map
diff --git a/notebooks/cognee_code_graph_demo.ipynb b/notebooks/cognee_code_graph_demo.ipynb
index f5735dcb8..83c5a1d37 100644
--- a/notebooks/cognee_code_graph_demo.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/cognee_code_graph_demo.ipynb
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     "import git\n",
     "\n",
     "notebook_path = path.abspath(\"\")\n",
-    "repo_clone_location = path.join(notebook_path, \"data/graphrag\")\n",
+    "repo_clone_location = path.join(notebook_path, \".data/graphrag\")\n",
     "\n",
     "LocalStorage.remove_all(repo_clone_location)\n",
     "\n",
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
     "from cognee.modules.pipelines import run_tasks\n",
     "\n",
     "notebook_path = os.path.abspath(\"\")\n",
-    "repo_clone_location = os.path.join(notebook_path, \"data/graphrag\")\n",
+    "repo_clone_location = os.path.join(notebook_path, \".data/graphrag\")\n",
     "\n",
     "pipeline = run_tasks(tasks, repo_clone_location, \"code_graph_pipeline\")\n",
     "\n",
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 5a0fb6428..6ebcbd743 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1597,22 +1597,23 @@ redis = ">=5.0.1,<6.0.0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fastapi"
-version = "0.109.2"
+version = "0.115.6"
 description = "FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "fastapi-0.109.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2c9bab24667293b501cad8dd388c05240c850b58ec5876ee3283c47d6e1e3a4d"},
-    {file = "fastapi-0.109.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:f3817eac96fe4f65a2ebb4baa000f394e55f5fccdaf7f75250804bc58f354f73"},
+    {file = "fastapi-0.115.6-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:e9240b29e36fa8f4bb7290316988e90c381e5092e0cbe84e7818cc3713bcf305"},
+    {file = "fastapi-0.115.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9ec46f7addc14ea472958a96aae5b5de65f39721a46aaf5705c480d9a8b76654"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
 pydantic = ">=1.7.4,<1.8 || >1.8,<1.8.1 || >1.8.1,<2.0.0 || >2.0.0,<2.0.1 || >2.0.1,<2.1.0 || >2.1.0,<3.0.0"
-starlette = ">=0.36.3,<0.37.0"
+starlette = ">=0.40.0,<0.42.0"
 typing-extensions = ">=4.8.0"
 
 [package.extras]
-all = ["email-validator (>=2.0.0)", "httpx (>=0.23.0)", "itsdangerous (>=1.1.0)", "jinja2 (>=2.11.2)", "orjson (>=3.2.1)", "pydantic-extra-types (>=2.0.0)", "pydantic-settings (>=2.0.0)", "python-multipart (>=0.0.7)", "pyyaml (>=5.3.1)", "ujson (>=4.0.1,!=4.0.2,!=4.1.0,!=4.2.0,!=4.3.0,!=5.0.0,!=5.1.0)", "uvicorn[standard] (>=0.12.0)"]
+all = ["email-validator (>=2.0.0)", "fastapi-cli[standard] (>=0.0.5)", "httpx (>=0.23.0)", "itsdangerous (>=1.1.0)", "jinja2 (>=2.11.2)", "orjson (>=3.2.1)", "pydantic-extra-types (>=2.0.0)", "pydantic-settings (>=2.0.0)", "python-multipart (>=0.0.7)", "pyyaml (>=5.3.1)", "ujson (>=4.0.1,!=4.0.2,!=4.1.0,!=4.2.0,!=4.3.0,!=5.0.0,!=5.1.0)", "uvicorn[standard] (>=0.12.0)"]
+standard = ["email-validator (>=2.0.0)", "fastapi-cli[standard] (>=0.0.5)", "httpx (>=0.23.0)", "jinja2 (>=2.11.2)", "python-multipart (>=0.0.7)", "uvicorn[standard] (>=0.12.0)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fastapi-users"
@@ -7556,13 +7557,13 @@ tests = ["cython", "littleutils", "pygments", "pytest", "typeguard"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "starlette"
-version = "0.36.3"
+version = "0.41.3"
 description = "The little ASGI library that shines."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "starlette-0.36.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:13d429aa93a61dc40bf503e8c801db1f1bca3dc706b10ef2434a36123568f044"},
-    {file = "starlette-0.36.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:90a671733cfb35771d8cc605e0b679d23b992f8dcfad48cc60b38cb29aeb7080"},
+    {file = "starlette-0.41.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:44cedb2b7c77a9de33a8b74b2b90e9f50d11fcf25d8270ea525ad71a25374ff7"},
+    {file = "starlette-0.41.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0e4ab3d16522a255be6b28260b938eae2482f98ce5cc934cb08dce8dc3ba5835"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -8875,4 +8876,6 @@ weaviate = ["weaviate-client"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.9.0,<3.12"
-content-hash = "f239d8c122b349e2bc78cff94c02a521361bd80277009eb3ff47f1f201c547aa"
+
+content-hash = "11a43b99fb231db46cb07d72cb19b6ffde1a263862122c3f53e759b618ce18b7"
+
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index eab9093c2..bb656b7d1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ python = ">=3.9.0,<3.12"
 openai = "1.52.0"
 pydantic = "2.8.2"
 python-dotenv = "1.0.1"
-fastapi = "^0.109.2"
+fastapi = ">=0.109.2,<0.116.0"
 uvicorn = "0.22.0"
 requests = "2.32.3"
 aiohttp = "3.10.10"