diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index fce8e9eae..c56ecd4d8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run linting rules
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: '3.12'
+        python-version: '3.13'
         cache: 'pip'
     - run: pip install -r requirements.txt
     - run: pylint -j0 core/
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: "3.12"
+          python-version: "3.13"
       - name: Cache pip dependencies
         uses: actions/cache@v3
         with:
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ jobs:
           # string hash randomization. Pinning the seed makes that pick land on `value<Type>` deterministically instead
           # of varying by CI run. See OpenConceptLab/ocl_issues#2708.
           PYTHONHASHSEED: "2"
-          # Python 3.12's low-overhead tracer; fine since we measure line coverage only
+          # Python 3.12+ low-overhead tracer; fine since we measure line coverage only
           COVERAGE_CORE: sysmon
         run: |
           . venv/bin/activate
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr.yml b/.github/workflows/pr.yml
index 719399043..b77a4ba69 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run linting rules
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: '3.12'
+        python-version: '3.13'
         cache: 'pip'
     - run: pip install -r requirements.txt
     - run: pylint -j0 core/
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: "3.12"
+          python-version: "3.13"
       - name: Cache pip dependencies
         uses: actions/cache@v3
         with:
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ jobs:
           # string hash randomization. Pinning the seed makes that pick land on `value<Type>` deterministically instead
           # of varying by CI run. See OpenConceptLab/ocl_issues#2708.
           PYTHONHASHSEED: "2"
-          # Python 3.12's low-overhead tracer; fine since we measure line coverage only
+          # Python 3.12+ low-overhead tracer; fine since we measure line coverage only
           COVERAGE_CORE: sysmon
         run: |
           . venv/bin/activate
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 083b492d8..7ae13bb5b 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.12-slim AS builder
+FROM python:3.13-slim AS builder
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ADD requirements.txt /code/
 
 RUN pip wheel --no-cache-dir --wheel-dir /code/wheels -r requirements.txt
 
-FROM python:3.12-slim
+FROM python:3.13-slim
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
 
diff --git a/core/settings.py b/core/settings.py
index f3e8de165..9064ba6c9 100644
--- a/core/settings.py
+++ b/core/settings.py
@@ -389,14 +389,15 @@ def get_set_from_env(name):
 
 USE_I18N = True
 
-USE_L10N = True
-
 USE_TZ = True
 
 # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
 STATIC_ROOT = '/staticfiles'
-STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedStaticFilesStorage'
+STORAGES = {
+    'default': {'BACKEND': 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage'},
+    'staticfiles': {'BACKEND': 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedStaticFilesStorage'},
+}
 
 AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'users.UserProfile'
 TEST_RUNNER = 'core.common.tests.CustomTestRunner'
diff --git a/docker-compose.local.yml b/docker-compose.local.yml
index d9ab4c413..142103c6d 100644
--- a/docker-compose.local.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.local.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # on arm64 they run under Rosetta/QEMU emulation, and once Celery indexing
 # kicks in the emulated cores saturate hard enough to block the API for
 # tens of seconds at a time. Building from the local Dockerfile (which uses
-# python:3.12-slim, a multi-arch base) gives a native image and ~200x faster
+# python:3.13-slim, a multi-arch base) gives a native image and ~200x faster
 # requests in practice.
 #
 # Usage:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c597ab6aa..e1b8ad352 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ djangorestframework==3.18.2
 pylint==4.0.9
 pydash==7.0.6
 django-cors-headers==4.9.0
-pyyaml==6.0.1
+pyyaml==6.0.3
 colour_runner==0.1.1
 boto3==1.36.10
 moto==5.0.27
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jsondiff==2.0.0
 django-silk==5.5.0
 azure-storage-blob==12.19.0
 fhir.resources[xml]==8.3.0
-ijson==3.2.3
+ijson==3.4.0
 responses==0.25.0
 pydantic==2.10.6
 minio==7.2.9