diff --git a/.ci/docker-compose-ci.yml b/.ci/docker-compose-ci.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a043599..00000000
--- a/.ci/docker-compose-ci.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-version: "2"
-
-services:
-  mysql80:
-    image: mysql:8.0
-    container_name: mysql80
-    command: mysqld --character-set-server=utf8 --collation-server=utf8_general_ci
-    environment:
-      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ""
-      MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: "yes"
-      MYSQL_USER: "notes001"
-      MYSQL_PASSWORD: "secret"
-      MYSQL_DATABASE: "edx_notes_api"
-  es:
-    image: elasticsearch:7.8.0
-    container_name: es
-    environment:
-      - discovery.type=single-node
-      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
-      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
-      - http.port=9200
-    ulimits:
-      memlock:
-        soft: -1
-        hard: -1
-    volumes:
-      - elasticsearch_data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
-    ports:
-      - "9200:9200"
-  notes:
-    # Uncomment this line to use the official course-discovery base image
-    image: openedx/edx-notes-api:latest
-
-    # Uncomment the next two lines to build from a local configuration repo
-    # build: ../configuration/docker/build/discovery/
-
-    container_name: edx_notes_api
-    volumes:
-      - ..:/edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api
-    command: tail -f /dev/null
-    depends_on:
-      - "mysql80"
-      - "es"
-    environment:
-      CONN_MAX_AGE: 60
-      DB_ENGINE: "django.db.backends.mysql"
-      DB_HOST: "db"
-      DB_NAME: "edx_notes_api"
-      DB_PASSWORD: ""
-      DB_PORT: "3306"
-      DB_USER: "root"
-      ENABLE_DJANGO_TOOLBAR: 1
-      ELASTICSEARCH_URL: "http://es:9200"
-
-volumes:
-  elasticsearch_data:
-    driver: local
diff --git a/.ci/docker.mk b/.ci/docker.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 79ab4a3f..00000000
--- a/.ci/docker.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-.PHONY: ci_down ci_start ci_stop ci_test ci_up
-
-ci_up: ## Create containers used to run tests on ci CI
-	docker compose -f .ci/docker-compose-ci.yml up -d
-
-ci_start: ## Start containers stopped by `ci_stop`
-	docker compose -f .ci/docker-compose-ci.yml start
-
-ci_test: ## Run tests on Docker containers, as on ci CI
-	docker exec -e TERM=$(TERM) -e TOXENV=$(TOXENV) -u root -it edx_notes_api /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api/.ci/run_tests.sh
-
-ci_pii_check: ## Run pii annotations checker on Docker containers, as on ci CI
-	docker exec -e TERM=$(TERM) -e TOXENV=$(TOXENV) -u root -it edx_notes_api /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api/.ci/run_pii_checker.sh
-
-ci_stop: ## Stop running containers created by `ci_up` without removing them
-	docker compose -f .ci/docker-compose-ci.yml stop
-
-ci_down: ## Stop and remove containers and other resources created by `ci_up`
-	docker compose -f .ci/docker-compose-ci.yml down
-
diff --git a/.ci/run_check_keywords.sh b/.ci/run_check_keywords.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 37045bd2..00000000
--- a/.ci/run_check_keywords.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -xe
-
-export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=notesserver.settings.test
-
-cd /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api
-
-make check_keywords
diff --git a/.ci/run_pii_checker.sh b/.ci/run_pii_checker.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index a9262879..00000000
--- a/.ci/run_pii_checker.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -xe
-
-export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=notesserver.settings.test
-
-cd /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api
-
-make pii_check
-
diff --git a/.ci/run_tests.sh b/.ci/run_tests.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b112c68c..00000000
--- a/.ci/run_tests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -xe
-
-export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=notesserver.settings.test
-
-cd /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api
-
-make validate
diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 94143827..00000000
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Dockerfile
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f58c737d..36ee66a1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -2,47 +2,65 @@ name: Django CI
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ master ]
+    branches: [master]
   pull_request:
-    branches: [ master ]
+    branches:
+      - "**"
 
 jobs:
-  build:
-
+  run_tests:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
-      max-parallel: 4
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['py311', 'py312']
-        django-version: ['django42']
-        db-version: ['mysql80']
+        python-version: ["3.11", "3.12"]
+        toxenv: ["django42"] # "quality", "pii_check", "check_keywords"
+
+    services:
+      mysql:
+        image: mysql:8.0
+        options: '--health-cmd="mysqladmin ping -h localhost" --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3'
+        env:
+          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD:
+          MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: "yes"
+          MYSQL_DATABASE: "edx_notes_api"
+        ports:
+          - 3306:3306
+
+      elasticsearch:
+        image: elasticsearch:7.13.4
+        options: '--health-cmd="curl -f http://localhost:9200 || exit 1" --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3'
+        env:
+          discovery.type: single-node
+          bootstrap.memory_lock: "true"
+          ES_JAVA_OPTS: "-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
+        ports:
+          - 9200:9200
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - name: Start container
-      run: |
-        docker compose -f .ci/docker-compose-ci.yml up -d
-    - name: Install Dependencies
-      run: |
-        docker exec -e TOXENV=${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.django-version }} --env DB_HOST=${{ matrix.db-version }} -u root edx_notes_api \
-        /bin/bash -c "apt-get update && apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential pkg-config"
-    - name: setup python 311
-      if: ${{ matrix.python-version == 'py311' }}
-      run: |
-        docker exec -e TOXENV=${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.django-version }} --env DB_HOST=${{ matrix.db-version }} -u root edx_notes_api \
-        /bin/bash -c "add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y && apt install python3.11 python3.11-dev python3.11-distutils -y"    
-    - name: setup python 312
-      if: ${{ matrix.python-version == 'py312' }}
-      run: |
-        docker exec -e TOXENV=${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.django-version }} --env DB_HOST=${{ matrix.db-version }} -u root edx_notes_api \
-        /bin/bash -c "add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y && apt install python3.12 python3.12-dev python3.12-distutils -y"
-    - name: Run Tests
-      run: |
-        docker exec -e TOXENV=${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.django-version }} --env DB_HOST=${{ matrix.db-version }} -u root edx_notes_api /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api/.ci/run_tests.sh
-    - name: Run PII Check
-      run: |
-        docker exec -e TOXENV=${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.django-version }} -u root edx_notes_api /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api/.ci/run_pii_checker.sh
-    - name: Run Reserved Keywords Check
-      run: |
-        docker exec -e TOXENV=${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.django-version }} -u root edx_notes_api /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api/.ci/run_check_keywords.sh
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install system packages
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libxmlsec1-dev
+
+      - name: Install pip and Tox
+        run: pip install --upgrade pip tox
+
+      - name: Run Tox tests
+        env:
+          CONN_MAX_AGE: 60
+          DB_ENGINE: django.db.backends.mysql
+          DB_HOST: 127.0.0.1
+          DB_NAME: edx_notes_api
+          DB_PASSWORD:
+          DB_PORT: 3306
+          DB_USER: root
+          ENABLE_DJANGO_TOOLBAR: 1
+          ELASTICSEARCH_URL: http://127.0.0.1:9200
+        run: tox -e ${{ matrix.toxenv }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8-check.yml b/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8-check.yml
index 7c4c8ab6..8acbe813 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8-check.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Migrations check on mysql8
+name: Migrations check on MySQL 8
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -9,74 +9,53 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   check_migrations:
-    name: check migrations
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        os: [ ubuntu-latest ]
-        python-version: [ '3.11', '3.12' ]
+        python-version: ["3.11", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
-    - name: Checkout repo
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-
-    - name: Install system Packages
-      run: |
-        sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install -y libxmlsec1-dev
-    - name: Get pip cache dir
-      id: pip-cache-dir
-      run: |
-        echo "dir=$(pip cache dir)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-    - name: Cache pip dependencies
-      id: cache-dependencies
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: ${{ steps.pip-cache-dir.outputs.dir }}
-        key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ hashFiles('requirements/pip-tools.txt') }}
-        restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-
-
-    - name: Ubuntu and sql Versions
-      run: |
-        lsb_release -a
-        mysql -V
-
-    # pinning xmlsec to version 1.3.13 to avoid the CI error, migration checks are failing due to an issue in the latest release of python-xmlsec
-    # https://github.com/xmlsec/python-xmlsec/issues/314
-    - name: Install Python dependencies
-      run: |
-        pip install -r requirements/pip-tools.txt
-        pip install -r requirements/test.txt
-        pip install -r requirements/base.txt
-        pip uninstall -y mysqlclient
-        pip install --no-binary mysqlclient mysqlclient
-        pip uninstall -y xmlsec
-        pip install --no-binary xmlsec xmlsec==1.3.13
-
-    - name: Initiate Services
-      run: |
-        sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
-    - name: Reset mysql password
-      run: |
-        cat <<EOF | mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root --password=root
-          UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string = null WHERE user = 'root';
-          FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
-        EOF
-    - name: Run Tests
-      env:
-        DB_ENGINE: django.db.backends.mysql
-        DB_NAME: edx_notes_api
-        DB_USER: root
-        DB_PASSWORD:
-        DB_HOST: localhost
-        DB_PORT: 3306
-      run: |
-        echo "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS edx_notes_api;" | sudo mysql -u root
-        echo "Running the migrations."
-        python manage.py migrate --settings=notesserver.settings.test
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} with cache
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          cache: "pip"
+          cache-dependency-path: "**/pip-tools.txt"
+
+      - name: Install system packages
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libxmlsec1-dev
+
+      # pinning xmlsec to version 1.3.13 to avoid the CI error, migration checks are failing due to an issue in the latest release of python-xmlsec
+      # https://github.com/xmlsec/python-xmlsec/issues/314
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install -r requirements/pip-tools.txt
+          pip install -r requirements/test.txt
+          pip install -r requirements/base.txt
+          pip uninstall -y mysqlclient
+          pip install --no-binary mysqlclient mysqlclient
+          pip uninstall -y xmlsec
+          pip install --no-binary xmlsec xmlsec==1.3.13
+
+      - name: Start MySQL service
+        run: sudo service mysql start
+
+      - name: Reset MySQL root password
+        run: |
+          mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -proot -e "UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string = null WHERE user = 'root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
+
+      - name: Run migrations
+        env:
+          DB_ENGINE: django.db.backends.mysql
+          DB_NAME: edx_notes_api
+          DB_USER: root
+          DB_PASSWORD:
+          DB_HOST: localhost
+          DB_PORT: 3306
+        run: |
+          echo "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS edx_notes_api;" | sudo mysql -u root
+          python manage.py migrate --settings=notesserver.settings.test
diff --git a/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml b/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 427f1fc1..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-name: Build and Push Docker Images
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-      - open-release/**
-
-jobs:
-  push:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      # Use the release name as the image tag if we're building an open release tag.
-      # Examples: if we're building 'open-release/olive.master', tag the image as 'olive.master'.
-      # Otherwise, we must be building from a push to master, so use 'latest'.
-      - name: Get tag name
-        id: get-tag-name
-        uses: actions/github-script@v7
-        with:
-          script: |
-            const branchName = context.ref.split('/').slice(-1)[0];
-            const tagName = branchName === 'master' ? 'latest' : branchName;
-            console.log('Will use tag: ' + tagName);
-            return tagName;
-          result-encoding: string
-
-      - uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
-
-      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
-
-      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
-
-      - name: Build and push Dev Docker image
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
-        with:
-          push: true
-          target: dev
-          tags: |
-            openedx/edx-notes-api-dev:${{ steps.get-tag-name.outputs.result }}
-            openedx/edx-notes-api-dev:${{ github.sha }}
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-
-      - name: Build and push Prod Docker image
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
-        with:
-          push: true
-          target: prod
-          tags: |
-            openedx/edx-notes-api:${{ steps.get-tag-name.outputs.result }}
-            openedx/edx-notes-api:${{ github.sha }}
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
diff --git a/.github/workflows/trivy-code-scanning.yml b/.github/workflows/trivy-code-scanning.yml
index 36d13adb..bbaef153 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/trivy-code-scanning.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/trivy-code-scanning.yml
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ name: "Trivy Code Scanning"
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ master ]
+    branches: [master]
   pull_request:
-    branches: [ master ]
+    branches: [master]
   schedule:
-    - cron: '27 1 * * 4'
+    - cron: "27 1 * * 4"
 
 jobs:
   Trivy-Scan:
@@ -17,18 +17,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Build an image from Dockerfile
-        run: |
-          docker build -t "openedx/edx-notes-api:latest" .
       - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
         uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
         with:
-          image-ref: 'openedx/edx-notes-api:latest'
-          format: 'template'
-          template: '@/contrib/sarif.tpl'
-          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
+          scan-type: "fs"
+          format: "sarif"
+          output: "trivy-results.sarif"
 
       - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
         uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
         with:
-          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'
+          sarif_file: "trivy-results.sarif"
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 86d909dd..00000000
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-FROM ubuntu:focal as app
-
-# Packages installed:
-# git; Used to pull in particular requirements from github rather than pypi, 
-# and to check the sha of the code checkout.
-
-# language-pack-en locales; ubuntu locale support so that system utilities have a consistent
-# language and time zone.
-
-# python3.8-dev; to install python 3.8
-# python3-venv; installs venv module required to create virtual environments
-
-# libssl-dev; # mysqlclient wont install without this.
-
-# libmysqlclient-dev; to install header files needed to use native C implementation for 
-# MySQL-python for performance gains.
-
-# If you add a package here please include a comment above describing what it is used for
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y software-properties-common && \
-    apt-add-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
-    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -qy && \
-    apt-get install \
-    language-pack-en \
-    locales \
-    git \
-    libmysqlclient-dev \
-    pkg-config \
-    libssl-dev \
-    build-essential \
-    python3.8-dev \
-    python3.8-distutils \
-    python3-virtualenv -qy && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-
-RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
-ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
-ENV LANGUAGE en_US:en
-ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
-
-
-# ENV variables lifetime is bound to the container whereas ARGS variables lifetime is bound to the image building process only
-# Also ARGS provide us an option of compatibility of Path structure for Tutor and other OpenedX installations
-ARG COMMON_CFG_DIR "/edx/etc"
-ARG COMMON_APP_DIR="/edx/app"
-ARG NOTES_APP_DIR="${COMMON_APP_DIR}/notes"
-ARG NOTES_VENV_DIR="${COMMON_APP_DIR}/venvs/notes"
-
-ENV NOTES_APP_DIR ${NOTES_APP_DIR}
-ENV PATH="$NOTES_VENV_DIR/bin:$PATH"
-
-RUN useradd -m --shell /bin/false app
-
-RUN virtualenv -p python3.8 --always-copy ${NOTES_VENV_DIR}
-
-COPY requirements ${NOTES_APP_DIR}/requirements
-
-WORKDIR ${NOTES_APP_DIR}
-
-# edx_notes_api service config commands below
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r ${NOTES_APP_DIR}/requirements/base.txt
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r ${NOTES_APP_DIR}/requirements/pip.txt
-
-RUN mkdir -p /edx/var/log
-
-COPY . ${NOTES_APP_DIR}
-
-EXPOSE 8120
-
-FROM app as dev
-
-ENV DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE "notesserver.settings.devstack"
-
-# Backwards compatibility with devstack
-RUN touch "${COMMON_APP_DIR}/edx_notes_api_env" 
-
-CMD while true; do python ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8120; sleep 2; done
-
-FROM app as production
-
-ENV EDXNOTES_CONFIG_ROOT /edx/etc
-ENV DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE "notesserver.settings.yaml_config"
-
-# Code is owned by root so it cannot be modified by the application user.
-# So we copy it before changing users.
-USER app
-
-# Gunicorn 19 does not log to stdout or stderr by default. Once we are past gunicorn 19, the logging to STDOUT need not be specified.
-CMD gunicorn --workers=2 --name notes -c /edx/app/notes/notesserver/docker_gunicorn_configuration.py --log-file - --max-requests=1000 notesserver.wsgi:application
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6aaa698b..b3d9a6ad 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 PACKAGES = notesserver notesapi
 .PHONY: requirements check_keywords
 
-ifdef TOXENV
-TOX := tox -- #to isolate each tox environment if TOXENV is defined
-endif
-
-include .ci/docker.mk
-
 validate: test.requirements test
 
 test: clean
-	$(TOX)python -Wd -m pytest
+	python -Wd -m pytest
 
 pii_check: test.requirements pii_clean
 	code_annotations django_find_annotations --config_file .pii_annotations.yml \
@@ -33,7 +27,7 @@ pii_clean:
 	mkdir -p pii_report
 
 quality:
-	pep8 --config=.pep8 $(PACKAGES)
+	pycodestyle --config=.pycodestyle  $(PACKAGES)
 	pylint $(PACKAGES)
 
 diff-coverage:
@@ -65,28 +59,18 @@ develop: requirements test.requirements
 piptools: ## install pinned version of pip-compile and pip-sync
 	pip install -r requirements/pip-tools.txt
 
-define COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TEMP_COMMENT
-# This is a temporary solution to override the real common_constraints.txt\n# In edx-lint, until the pyjwt constraint in edx-lint has been removed.\n# See BOM-2721 for more details.\n# Below is the copied and edited version of common_constraints\n
-endef
-COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT=requirements/common_constraints.txt
-.PHONY: $(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT)
-$(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT):
-	wget -O "$(@)" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt || touch "$(@)"
-	echo "$(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TEMP_COMMENT)" | cat - $(@) > temp && mv temp $(@)
-
 upgrade: export CUSTOM_COMPILE_COMMAND=make upgrade
-upgrade: piptools $(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT) ## update the requirements/*.txt files with the latest packages satisfying requirements/*.in
+upgrade: piptools ## update the requirements/*.txt files with the latest packages satisfying requirements/*.in
 	# Make sure to compile files after any other files they include!
-	sed -i.'' 's/Django<4.0//g' requirements/common_constraints.txt
 	pip-compile --upgrade --rebuild --allow-unsafe -o requirements/pip.txt requirements/pip.in
 	pip-compile --upgrade -o requirements/pip-tools.txt requirements/pip-tools.in
 	pip install -qr requirements/pip.txt
 	pip install -qr requirements/pip-tools.txt
-	pip-compile --upgrade -o requirements/base.txt requirements/base.in
-	pip-compile --upgrade -o requirements/test.txt requirements/test.in
-	pip-compile --upgrade -o requirements/ci.txt requirements/ci.in
+	pip-compile --upgrade --allow-unsafe -o requirements/base.txt requirements/base.in
+	pip-compile --upgrade --allow-unsafe -o requirements/test.txt requirements/test.in
+	pip-compile --upgrade --allow-unsafe -o requirements/ci.txt requirements/ci.in
+	pip-compile --upgrade --allow-unsafe -o requirements/quality.txt requirements/quality.in
 	# Let tox control the Django version for tests
 	grep -e "^django==" requirements/base.txt > requirements/django.txt
 	sed '/^[dD]jango==/d' requirements/test.txt > requirements/test.tmp
 	mv requirements/test.tmp requirements/test.txt
-
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 98634436..fbaaec7e 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The edX Notes API is designed to be compatible with the `Annotator <http://annot
 Getting Started
 ***************
 
-1. Install `ElasticSearch 7.8.0 <https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-7-8-0-released>`__.
+1. Install `ElasticSearch 7.13.4 <https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-7-13-4>`__.
 
 2. Install the requirements:
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ How To Contribute
 
 Contributions are very welcome.
 
-Please read `How To Contribute <https://github.com/openedx/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_ for details.
+Please read `How To Contribute <https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/941457737/How+to+Start+Contributing+Code>`_ for details.
 
 Reporting Security Issues
 *************************
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Mailing List and IRC Channel
 You can discuss this code on the `edx-code Google Group`__ or in the
 ``edx-code`` IRC channel on Freenode.
 
-__ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/edx-code
+__ https://groups.google.com/g/edx-code
 
 .. |build-status| image:: https://github.com/openedx/edx-notes-api/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg
    :target: https://github.com/openedx/edx-notes-api/actions/workflows/ci.yml
diff --git a/catalog-info.yaml b/catalog-info.yaml
index e3a69df9..e283858d 100644
--- a/catalog-info.yaml
+++ b/catalog-info.yaml
@@ -18,4 +18,3 @@ spec:
 
   # (Required) Acceptable Lifecycle Values: experimental, production, deprecated
   lifecycle: 'production'
-  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index a12ac82f..fd6c4a45 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 # SERIOUSLY.
 #
 # ------------------------------
-# Generated by edx-lint version: 5.3.0
+# Generated by edx-lint version: 5.4.1
 # ------------------------------
 [MASTER]
 ignore = 
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ enable =
 	useless-suppression,
 disable = 
 	bad-indentation,
+	broad-exception-raised,
 	consider-using-f-string,
 	duplicate-code,
 	file-ignored,
@@ -380,6 +381,6 @@ ext-import-graph =
 int-import-graph = 
 
 [EXCEPTIONS]
-overgeneral-exceptions = Exception
+overgeneral-exceptions = builtins.Exception
 
-# cbdfd50557cf2747f24a700b1caba610ff09bc6b
+# 81327117d32c61cfe23ffd4c7fca0bc96d5c118a
diff --git a/requirements/base.in b/requirements/base.in
index d0978e72..dc2ab72b 100644
--- a/requirements/base.in
+++ b/requirements/base.in
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ edx-django-release-util
 edx-django-utils
 edx-drf-extensions
 pytz
+setuptools
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 05398f1d..54aa1694 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 #    make upgrade
 #
 asgiref==3.8.1
-    # via django
+    # via
+    #   django
+    #   django-cors-headers
 attrs==24.2.0
     # via
     #   jsonschema
@@ -18,15 +20,15 @@ cffi==1.17.1
     # via
     #   cryptography
     #   pynacl
-chardet==3.0.4
+charset-normalizer==3.4.0
     # via requests
 click==8.1.7
     # via edx-django-utils
-cryptography==43.0.1
+cryptography==43.0.3
     # via pyjwt
 django==4.2.16
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/common_constraints.txt
+    #   -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   django-cors-headers
     #   django-crum
@@ -38,15 +40,12 @@ django==4.2.16
     #   edx-django-release-util
     #   edx-django-utils
     #   edx-drf-extensions
-django-cors-headers==3.14.0
-    # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
-    #   -r requirements/base.in
+django-cors-headers==4.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.in
 django-crum==0.7.9
     # via edx-django-utils
 django-elasticsearch-dsl==7.4
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
 django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf==0.22.5
@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ djangorestframework==3.15.2
     #   drf-jwt
     #   drf-spectacular
     #   edx-drf-extensions
-dnspython==2.6.1
+dnspython==2.7.0
     # via pymongo
 drf-jwt==1.19.2
     # via edx-drf-extensions
@@ -72,40 +71,38 @@ drf-spectacular==0.27.2
     # via -r requirements/base.in
 edx-django-release-util==1.4.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-edx-django-utils==5.16.0
+edx-django-utils==7.0.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   edx-drf-extensions
-edx-drf-extensions==10.4.0
+edx-drf-extensions==10.5.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
 edx-opaque-keys==2.11.0
     # via edx-drf-extensions
 elasticsearch==7.13.4
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/common_constraints.txt
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
+    #   -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
     #   elasticsearch-dsl
 elasticsearch-dsl==7.4.1
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
 gunicorn==23.0.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-idna==2.10
+idna==3.10
     # via requests
 inflection==0.5.1
     # via drf-spectacular
 jsonschema==4.23.0
     # via drf-spectacular
-jsonschema-specifications==2023.12.1
+jsonschema-specifications==2024.10.1
     # via jsonschema
-mysqlclient==2.2.4
+mysqlclient==2.2.5
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-newrelic==10.0.0
+newrelic==10.2.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   edx-django-utils
@@ -113,13 +110,13 @@ packaging==24.1
     # via
     #   django-nine
     #   gunicorn
-path-py==9.1
-    # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
-    #   -r requirements/base.in
+path==17.0.0
+    # via path-py
+path-py==12.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.in
 pbr==6.1.0
     # via stevedore
-psutil==6.0.0
+psutil==6.1.0
     # via edx-django-utils
 pycparser==2.22
     # via cffi
@@ -132,9 +129,8 @@ pymongo==4.10.1
     # via edx-opaque-keys
 pynacl==1.5.0
     # via edx-django-utils
-python-dateutil==2.4.0
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   elasticsearch-dsl
 pytz==2024.2
@@ -147,9 +143,8 @@ referencing==0.35.1
     # via
     #   jsonschema
     #   jsonschema-specifications
-requests==2.25.0
+requests==2.32.3
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   edx-drf-extensions
 rpds-py==0.20.0
@@ -172,10 +167,16 @@ stevedore==5.3.0
     #   edx-django-utils
     #   edx-opaque-keys
 typing-extensions==4.12.2
-    # via edx-opaque-keys
+    # via
+    #   edx-opaque-keys
+    #   elasticsearch-dsl
 uritemplate==4.1.1
     # via drf-spectacular
 urllib3==1.26.20
     # via
     #   elasticsearch
     #   requests
+
+# The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
+setuptools==75.2.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.in
diff --git a/requirements/ci.txt b/requirements/ci.txt
index 8fa9d54c..d0a77467 100644
--- a/requirements/ci.txt
+++ b/requirements/ci.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ chardet==5.2.0
     # via tox
 colorama==0.4.6
     # via tox
-distlib==0.3.8
+distlib==0.3.9
     # via virtualenv
 filelock==3.16.1
     # via
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ pluggy==1.5.0
     # via tox
 pyproject-api==1.8.0
     # via tox
-tox==4.21.0
+tox==4.23.2
     # via -r requirements/ci.in
-virtualenv==20.26.6
+virtualenv==20.27.1
     # via tox
diff --git a/requirements/common_constraints.txt b/requirements/common_constraints.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ba91047..00000000
--- a/requirements/common_constraints.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# This is a temporary solution to override the real common_constraints.txt
-# In edx-lint, until the pyjwt constraint in edx-lint has been removed.
-# See BOM-2721 for more details.
-# Below is the copied and edited version of common_constraints
-
-# A central location for most common version constraints
-# (across edx repos) for pip-installation.
-#
-# Similar to other constraint files this file doesn't install any packages.
-# It specifies version constraints that will be applied if a package is needed.
-# When pinning something here, please provide an explanation of why it is a good
-# idea to pin this package across all edx repos, Ideally, link to other information
-# that will help people in the future to remove the pin when possible.
-# Writing an issue against the offending project and linking to it here is good.
-#
-# Note: Changes to this file will automatically be used by other repos, referencing
-#  this file from Github directly. It does not require packaging in edx-lint.
-
-
-# using LTS django version
-Django<5.0
-
-# elasticsearch>=7.14.0 includes breaking changes in it which caused issues in discovery upgrade process.
-# elastic search changelog: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/master/release-notes-7.14.0.html
-# See https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/35126 for more info
-elasticsearch<7.14.0
-
-# django-simple-history>3.0.0 adds indexing and causes a lot of migrations to be affected
-django-simple-history==3.0.0
-
-# Cause: https://github.com/openedx/event-tracking/pull/290
-# event-tracking 2.4.1 upgrades to pymongo 4.4.0 which is not supported on edx-platform.
-# We will pin event-tracking to do not break existing installations
-# This can be unpinned once https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/34586
-# has been resolved and edx-platform is running with pymongo>=4.4.0
-event-tracking<2.4.1
diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index c26de26f..f27b3f35 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -8,16 +8,5 @@
 # pin when possible.  Writing an issue against the offending project and
 # linking to it here is good.
 
-# This file contains all common constraints for edx-repos
--c common_constraints.txt
-
-astroid==1.6.6
-requests==2.25.0
-elasticsearch>=7.8,<8.0
-elasticsearch-dsl>=7.2,<8.0
-django-elasticsearch-dsl>=7.1,<8.0
-path.py==9.1
-python-dateutil==2.4.0
-more-itertools==5.0.0
-pylint==1.5.0
-django-cors-headers==3.14.0
+# Common constraints for edx repos
+-c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
diff --git a/requirements/pip-tools.txt b/requirements/pip-tools.txt
index 6eb4c374..db6c4632 100644
--- a/requirements/pip-tools.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip-tools.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 #    make upgrade
 #
-build==1.2.2
+build==1.2.2.post1
     # via pip-tools
 click==8.1.7
     # via pip-tools
diff --git a/requirements/pip.txt b/requirements/pip.txt
index 36c777e2..26f57393 100644
--- a/requirements/pip.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ wheel==0.44.0
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 pip==24.2
-    # via -r requirements/pip.in
-setuptools==75.1.0
+    # via
+    #   -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
+    #   -r requirements/pip.in
+setuptools==75.2.0
     # via -r requirements/pip.in
diff --git a/requirements/production.txt b/requirements/production.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29b..00000000
diff --git a/requirements/quality.in b/requirements/quality.in
index 499f5e6f..44745233 100644
--- a/requirements/quality.in
+++ b/requirements/quality.in
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@
 -r base.txt
 
 code-annotations
+pycodestyle
+pylint
+edx_lint
diff --git a/requirements/quality.txt b/requirements/quality.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69ab04a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/quality.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,289 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    make upgrade
+#
+asgiref==3.8.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django
+    #   django-cors-headers
+astroid==3.3.5
+    # via
+    #   pylint
+    #   pylint-celery
+attrs==24.2.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   jsonschema
+    #   referencing
+certifi==2024.8.30
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   elasticsearch
+    #   requests
+cffi==1.17.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   cryptography
+    #   pynacl
+charset-normalizer==3.4.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   requests
+click==8.1.7
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   click-log
+    #   code-annotations
+    #   edx-django-utils
+    #   edx-lint
+click-log==0.4.0
+    # via edx-lint
+code-annotations==1.8.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/quality.in
+    #   edx-lint
+cryptography==43.0.3
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   pyjwt
+dill==0.3.9
+    # via pylint
+django==4.2.16
+    # via
+    #   -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-cors-headers
+    #   django-crum
+    #   django-nine
+    #   django-waffle
+    #   djangorestframework
+    #   drf-jwt
+    #   drf-spectacular
+    #   edx-django-release-util
+    #   edx-django-utils
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+django-cors-headers==4.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+django-crum==0.7.9
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-django-utils
+django-elasticsearch-dsl==7.4
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
+django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf==0.22.5
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+django-nine==0.2.7
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
+django-waffle==4.1.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-django-utils
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+djangorestframework==3.15.2
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
+    #   drf-jwt
+    #   drf-spectacular
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+dnspython==2.7.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   pymongo
+drf-jwt==1.19.2
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+drf-spectacular==0.27.2
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+edx-django-release-util==1.4.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+edx-django-utils==7.0.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+edx-drf-extensions==10.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+edx-lint==5.4.1
+    # via -r requirements/quality.in
+edx-opaque-keys==2.11.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+elasticsearch==7.13.4
+    # via
+    #   -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
+    #   elasticsearch-dsl
+elasticsearch-dsl==7.4.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
+gunicorn==23.0.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+idna==3.10
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   requests
+inflection==0.5.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   drf-spectacular
+isort==5.13.2
+    # via pylint
+jinja2==3.1.4
+    # via code-annotations
+jsonschema==4.23.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   drf-spectacular
+jsonschema-specifications==2024.10.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   jsonschema
+markupsafe==3.0.2
+    # via jinja2
+mccabe==0.7.0
+    # via pylint
+mysqlclient==2.2.5
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+newrelic==10.2.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-django-utils
+packaging==24.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-nine
+    #   gunicorn
+path==17.0.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   path-py
+path-py==12.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+pbr==6.1.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   stevedore
+platformdirs==4.3.6
+    # via pylint
+psutil==6.1.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-django-utils
+pycodestyle==2.12.1
+    # via -r requirements/quality.in
+pycparser==2.22
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   cffi
+pyjwt[crypto]==2.9.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   drf-jwt
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+pylint==3.3.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/quality.in
+    #   edx-lint
+    #   pylint-celery
+    #   pylint-django
+    #   pylint-plugin-utils
+pylint-celery==0.3
+    # via edx-lint
+pylint-django==2.6.1
+    # via edx-lint
+pylint-plugin-utils==0.8.2
+    # via
+    #   pylint-celery
+    #   pylint-django
+pymongo==4.10.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-opaque-keys
+pynacl==1.5.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-django-utils
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   elasticsearch-dsl
+python-slugify==8.0.4
+    # via code-annotations
+pytz==2024.2
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
+pyyaml==6.0.2
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   code-annotations
+    #   drf-spectacular
+    #   edx-django-release-util
+referencing==0.35.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   jsonschema
+    #   jsonschema-specifications
+requests==2.32.3
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+rpds-py==0.20.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   jsonschema
+    #   referencing
+semantic-version==2.10.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-drf-extensions
+six==1.16.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl
+    #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
+    #   edx-django-release-util
+    #   edx-lint
+    #   elasticsearch-dsl
+    #   python-dateutil
+sqlparse==0.5.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   django
+stevedore==5.3.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   code-annotations
+    #   edx-django-utils
+    #   edx-opaque-keys
+text-unidecode==1.3
+    # via python-slugify
+tomlkit==0.13.2
+    # via pylint
+typing-extensions==4.12.2
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   edx-opaque-keys
+uritemplate==4.1.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   drf-spectacular
+urllib3==1.26.20
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   elasticsearch
+    #   requests
+
+# The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
+setuptools==75.2.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index ea169672..acf5b249 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ asgiref==3.8.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django
-astroid==1.6.6
+    #   django-cors-headers
+astroid==3.3.5
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/test.in
     #   pylint
 attrs==24.2.0
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ attrs==24.2.0
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   jsonschema
     #   referencing
+cachetools==5.5.0
+    # via tox
 certifi==2024.8.30
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -28,10 +30,13 @@ cffi==1.17.1
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   cryptography
     #   pynacl
-chardet==3.0.4
+chardet==5.2.0
     # via
-    #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   diff-cover
+    #   tox
+charset-normalizer==3.4.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   requests
 click==8.1.7
     # via
@@ -41,12 +46,12 @@ click==8.1.7
 code-annotations==1.8.0
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 colorama==0.4.6
-    # via pylint
-coverage[toml]==7.6.1
+    # via tox
+coverage[toml]==7.6.4
     # via
     #   -r requirements/test.in
     #   pytest-cov
-cryptography==43.0.1
+cryptography==43.0.3
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   pyjwt
@@ -54,10 +59,12 @@ ddt==1.7.2
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 diff-cover==9.2.0
     # via -r requirements/test.in
-distlib==0.3.8
+dill==0.3.9
+    # via pylint
+distlib==0.3.9
     # via virtualenv
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/common_constraints.txt
+    #   -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-cors-headers
     #   django-crum
@@ -69,17 +76,14 @@ distlib==0.3.8
     #   edx-django-release-util
     #   edx-django-utils
     #   edx-drf-extensions
-django-cors-headers==3.14.0
-    # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
-    #   -r requirements/base.txt
+django-cors-headers==4.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
 django-crum==0.7.9
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   edx-django-utils
 django-elasticsearch-dsl==7.4
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
 django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf==0.22.5
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@ djangorestframework==3.15.2
     #   drf-jwt
     #   drf-spectacular
     #   edx-drf-extensions
-dnspython==2.6.1
+dnspython==2.7.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   pymongo
@@ -112,11 +116,11 @@ drf-spectacular==0.27.2
     # via -r requirements/base.txt
 edx-django-release-util==1.4.0
     # via -r requirements/base.txt
-edx-django-utils==5.16.0
+edx-django-utils==7.0.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   edx-drf-extensions
-edx-drf-extensions==10.4.0
+edx-drf-extensions==10.5.0
     # via -r requirements/base.txt
 edx-opaque-keys==2.11.0
     # via
@@ -124,20 +128,18 @@ edx-opaque-keys==2.11.0
     #   edx-drf-extensions
 elasticsearch==7.13.4
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/common_constraints.txt
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
+    #   -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openedx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
     #   elasticsearch-dsl
 elasticsearch-dsl==7.4.1
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
 factory-boy==3.3.1
     # via -r requirements/test.in
-faker==30.1.0
+faker==30.8.1
     # via factory-boy
 filelock==3.16.1
     # via
@@ -145,7 +147,7 @@ filelock==3.16.1
     #   virtualenv
 gunicorn==23.0.0
     # via -r requirements/base.txt
-idna==2.10
+idna==3.10
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   requests
@@ -155,6 +157,8 @@ inflection==0.5.1
     #   drf-spectacular
 iniconfig==2.0.0
     # via pytest
+isort==5.13.2
+    # via pylint
 jinja2==3.1.4
     # via
     #   code-annotations
@@ -163,21 +167,19 @@ jsonschema==4.23.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   drf-spectacular
-jsonschema-specifications==2023.12.1
+jsonschema-specifications==2024.10.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   jsonschema
-lazy-object-proxy==1.10.0
-    # via astroid
-markupsafe==2.1.5
+markupsafe==3.0.2
     # via jinja2
-more-itertools==5.0.0
-    # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
-    #   -r requirements/test.in
-mysqlclient==2.2.4
+mccabe==0.7.0
+    # via pylint
+more-itertools==10.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/test.in
+mysqlclient==2.2.5
     # via -r requirements/base.txt
-newrelic==10.0.0
+newrelic==10.2.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   edx-django-utils
@@ -186,12 +188,15 @@ packaging==24.1
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-nine
     #   gunicorn
+    #   pyproject-api
     #   pytest
     #   tox
-path-py==9.1
+path==17.0.0
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
+    #   path-py
+path-py==12.5.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
 pbr==6.1.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -199,18 +204,19 @@ pbr==6.1.0
 pep8==1.7.1
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 platformdirs==4.3.6
-    # via virtualenv
+    # via
+    #   pylint
+    #   tox
+    #   virtualenv
 pluggy==1.5.0
     # via
     #   diff-cover
     #   pytest
     #   tox
-psutil==6.0.0
+psutil==6.1.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   edx-django-utils
-py==1.11.0
-    # via tox
 pycparser==2.22
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -222,10 +228,8 @@ pyjwt[crypto]==2.9.0
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   drf-jwt
     #   edx-drf-extensions
-pylint==1.5.0
-    # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
-    #   -r requirements/test.in
+pylint==3.3.1
+    # via -r requirements/test.in
 pymongo==4.10.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -234,6 +238,8 @@ pynacl==1.5.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   edx-django-utils
+pyproject-api==1.8.0
+    # via tox
 pytest==8.3.3
     # via
     #   -r requirements/test.in
@@ -243,9 +249,8 @@ pytest-cov==5.0.0
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 pytest-django==4.9.0
     # via -r requirements/test.in
-python-dateutil==2.4.0
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   elasticsearch-dsl
     #   faker
@@ -264,9 +269,8 @@ referencing==0.35.1
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   jsonschema
     #   jsonschema-specifications
-requests==2.25.0
+requests==2.32.3
     # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   edx-drf-extensions
 rpds-py==0.20.0
@@ -281,15 +285,11 @@ semantic-version==2.10.0
 six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
-    #   astroid
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl
     #   django-elasticsearch-dsl-drf
     #   edx-django-release-util
     #   elasticsearch-dsl
-    #   more-itertools
-    #   pylint
     #   python-dateutil
-    #   tox
 sqlparse==0.5.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -302,7 +302,9 @@ stevedore==5.3.0
     #   edx-opaque-keys
 text-unidecode==1.3
     # via python-slugify
-tox==3.28.0
+tomlkit==0.13.2
+    # via pylint
+tox==4.23.2
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 typing-extensions==4.12.2
     # via
@@ -318,7 +320,9 @@ urllib3==1.26.20
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   elasticsearch
     #   requests
-virtualenv==20.26.6
+virtualenv==20.27.1
     # via tox
-wrapt==1.16.0
-    # via astroid
+
+# The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
+setuptools==75.2.0
+    # via -r requirements/base.txt
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5b64eb6b..838605e8 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py{311,312}-django{42}
+envlist = py{311,312}-django{42} #, quality, pii_check, check_keywords
 skipsdist = true
+isolated_build = true  # Enable isolated build environments
 
 [testenv]
+envdir = {toxworkdir}/{envname}
 deps =
-    setuptools
     django42: Django>=4.2,<5.0
-    -r {toxinidir}/requirements/test.txt
 passenv =
     CONN_MAX_AGE
     DB_ENGINE
@@ -21,3 +21,34 @@ allowlist_externals =
     make
 commands =
     make validate
+
+[testenv:quality]
+envdir = {toxworkdir}/{envname}
+allowlist_externals =
+    make
+deps =
+    -r{toxinidir}/requirements/quality.txt
+commands =
+    make quality
+
+[testenv:pii_check]
+envdir = {toxworkdir}/{envname}
+setenv =
+    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = notesserver.settings.test
+allowlist_externals =
+    make
+deps =
+    Django>=4.2,<5.0
+commands =
+    make pii_check
+
+[testenv:check_keywords]
+envdir = {toxworkdir}/{envname}
+setenv =
+    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = notesserver.settings.test
+allowlist_externals =
+    make
+deps =
+    -r{toxinidir}/requirements/test.txt
+commands =
+    make check_keywords