diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index 2d931083b..a9bc852a5 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ RUN echo "DANSWER_VERSION: ${DANSWER_VERSION}"
 # zip for Vespa step futher down
 # ca-certificates for HTTPS
 RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y cmake curl zip ca-certificates && \
+    apt-get install -y cmake curl zip ca-certificates libgnutls30=3.7.9-2+deb12u2 && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
     apt-get clean
 
diff --git a/backend/requirements/default.txt b/backend/requirements/default.txt
index 73cce7822..2000a4dac 100644
--- a/backend/requirements/default.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements/default.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+aiohttp==3.9.0rc0
 alembic==1.10.4
 asyncpg==0.27.0
 atlassian-python-api==3.37.0
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ safetensors==0.3.1
 sentence-transformers==2.2.2
 slack-sdk==3.20.2
 SQLAlchemy[mypy]==2.0.15
+starlette==0.36.3
 supervisor==4.2.5
 tensorflow==2.15.0
 tiktoken==0.4.0