diff --git a/.github/workflows/testing-and-deployment.yml b/.github/workflows/testing-and-deployment.yml
index 05e65fb6..686c1bf4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/testing-and-deployment.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/testing-and-deployment.yml
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: Build wheels
-        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.12.1
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.12.3
         with:
             python-version: 3.7 - 3.11
 
diff --git a/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_archive.pyx b/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_archive.pyx
index 6e8fc6ce..d130d086 100644
--- a/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_archive.pyx
+++ b/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_archive.pyx
@@ -101,16 +101,16 @@ def py_write_nblock_float(filename, const int [::1] node_id, int max_node_id,
 
 
 def py_write_eblock(filename,
-                    int [::1] elem_id,
-                    int [::1] etype,
-                    int [::1] mtype,
-                    int [::1] rcon,
-                    int [::1] elem_nnodes,
-                    int64_t [::1] cells,
-                    int64_t [::1] offset,
-                    uint8_t [::1] celltypes,
-                    int [::1] typenum,
-                    int [::1] nodenum,
+                    const int [::1] elem_id,
+                    const int [::1] etype,
+                    const int [::1] mtype,
+                    const int [::1] rcon,
+                    const int [::1] elem_nnodes,
+                    const int64_t [::1] cells,
+                    const int64_t [::1] offset,
+                    const uint8_t [::1] celltypes,
+                    const int [::1] typenum,
+                    const int [::1] nodenum,
                     mode='w'):
     cdef FILE* cfile = fopen(filename.encode(), mode.encode())
     write_eblock(cfile,
diff --git a/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_binary_reader.pyx b/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_binary_reader.pyx
index 8687759a..d0857ae4 100644
--- a/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_binary_reader.pyx
+++ b/ansys/mapdl/reader/cython/_binary_reader.pyx
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ cdef np.ndarray wrap_array(void* c_ptr, int size, int type_flag, int prec_flag):
     ndarray = np.array(array_wrapper, copy=False)
 
     # Assign our object to the 'base' of the ndarray object
-    ndarray.base = <PyObject*> array_wrapper
+    np.PyArray_SetBaseObject(ndarray, array_wrapper)
 
     # Increment the reference count, as the above assignment was done in
     # C, and Python does not know that there is this additional reference
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6a364e2a..f53967e2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 requires = [
-    "cython<3.0.0",
+    "cython==3.0.0b2",
     "oldest-supported-numpy",
     "setuptools>=45.0",
     "wheel>=0.37.0",
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_docs.txt b/requirements/requirements_docs.txt
index 203d9a90..d2fe8c07 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_docs.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_docs.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-Sphinx<6
-ansys-sphinx-theme==0.9.7
+Sphinx<7
+ansys-sphinx-theme==0.9.8
+imageio==2.28.1
 notfound==1.0.2
 pypandoc==1.11
-pyvista==0.38.5
+pyvista==0.39.0
 sphinx-copybutton==0.5.2
 sphinx-gallery==0.13.0
 sphinx-notfound-page==0.8.3