diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 81f16c1..daeebdb 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -6,53 +6,48 @@ channels:
 
 dependencies:
   - python~=3.11.0
-  # nbgitpuller is very helpful when distributing user content
-  - nbgitpuller~=1.2.0
-  # Specify major version of jupyterlab to use. Manually bump it when you want to upgrade
-  # jupyterlab version
-  - jupyterlab>=4.0,<4.1
-  # This provides memory usage stats on JupyterLab and classic notebook
-  - jupyter-resource-usage~=1.0.1
-  # https://syncthing.net/ provides a dropbox-like interface for syncing directories across users,
-  # hubs and machines. Used along with `jupyter-syncthing-proxy`.
-  - jupyter-syncthing-proxy==1.0.3
-  - syncthing~=1.22.1
+  - jupyterlab>=4.0
+  - jupyter-resource-usage
+  - jupyterlab-git
   # gh-scoped-creds allows users to securely push to GitHub from their repo.
-  # https://blog.jupyter.org/securely-pushing-to-github-from-a-jupyterhub-3ee42dfdc54f has
-  # some more information
   - gh-scoped-creds==4.1
-  # More git tools from github-cli
-  - gh~=2.32.1
 
   # R/RStudio Support
   - jupyter-rsession-proxy
   
   # VS Code support
-  - jupyter-vscode-proxy~=0.5
-  - code-server~=4.23
+  - jupyter-vscode-proxy
+  - code-server
 
-  # Jupyter tools
-  - ipython~=8.17
-  - ipywidgets~=8.1.1
-  - jupyter-ai~=2.20
-  - jupyter-book~=1.0.0
-  # - jupyter-collaboration~=2.0.1
-  - jupyter-offlinenotebook~=0.3.1
-  - jupyter-sshd-proxy~=0.2
-  - jupyterlab-favorites~=3.2.1
-  - jupyterlab-geojson~=3.4.0
-  - jupyterlab-git~=0.50.0
-  - jupyterlab-h5web~=11.1.0
-  - jupyterlab-myst~=2.4.2
-  - jupyterlab_pygments~=0.3.0 # To bring extension up-to-date
-  - jupytext~=1.16.1
-  - nbdime~=4.0.1
+  # https://syncthing.net/ provides a dropbox-like interface for syncing directories across users,
+  # hubs and machines. Used along with `jupyter-syncthing-proxy`.
+  #- jupyter-syncthing-proxy==1.0.3
+  #- syncthing~=1.22.1
+
+  # Extra Jupyter tools
+  - ipython
+  - ipywidgets
+  - jupyter-ai
+  - jupyter-book
+  - jupyter-offlinenotebook
+  - jupyter-sshd-proxy
+  - jupyterlab-favorites
+  - jupyterlab-geojson
+  - jupyterlab-h5web
+  - jupyterlab-myst
+  - jupyterlab_pygments>=0.3.0
+  - jupytext
+  - nbdime
   # JupyterBook Addons
-  - sphinx~=7.3
+  - sphinx
   - sphinxcontrib-bibtex
   # Interactive apps
-  - itables~=2.1
-  - voila~=0.5
+  - itables
+  - voila
+  # nbgitpuller is very helpful when distributing user content
+  - nbgitpuller
+  # More git tools from github-cli
+  - gh
 
   # Resolves warning "No ICDs were found": https://github.com/CryoInTheCloud/hub-image/issues/50
   - ocl-icd-system
@@ -64,7 +59,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   # Desktop server
   # Not all packages will be available from conda-forge, we install from pip when we need to.
-  - pip~=23.3.2
+  - pip
   - pip:
     # Access linux desktop from inside JupyterHub
     - jupyter-desktop-server==0.1.3