diff --git a/.github/workflows/prerelease.yml b/.github/workflows/prerelease.yml
index 6467054d..0ac56bb7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/prerelease.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/prerelease.yml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get install -y debsigs
           bash ./scripts/sign.sh
 
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         if: ${{ contains(matrix.packages.available-flavors, env.FB_PACKAGE_NAME) }}
         with:
           name: ${{ env.FB_PACKAGE_NAME }}_${{ env.VERSION }}_rpm
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get install -y debsigs
           bash ./scripts/sign.sh
 
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         if: ${{ contains(matrix.packages.available-flavors, env.FB_PACKAGE_NAME) }}
         with:
           name: ${{ env.FB_PACKAGE_NAME }}_${{ env.VERSION }}_deb
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ jobs:
           unzip fluent-bit-${{ env.VERSION }}-${{ matrix.packages.version }}.zip
           zip -r -j packages/fb-windows-${{ matrix.packages.arch }}.zip fluent-bit-${{ env.VERSION }}-${{ matrix.packages.version }}/bin/fluent-bit.exe fluent-bit-${{ env.VERSION }}-${{ matrix.packages.version }}/bin/fluent-bit.dll
 
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with:
           name: fluent-bit_${{ env.VERSION }}_zip
           path: packages/
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml b/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml
index 885bcf19..dff9783b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ jobs:
         # for those distros using the same package, such as Windows). To avoid this, we first push all the files to a
         # shared filesystem and let the "prepare_prerelease" step below upload them later, sequentially. This GH action
         # ensures that if two jobs attempt pushing the same file, they get overwritten (last one prevails).
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with:
           # Artifacts are pushed to *shared network folders* that have this name and that contain
           # the artifact inside of them. Example: fluent-bit-2.1.8-386.exe/fluent-bit-2.1.8-386.exe
diff --git a/ansible/build-fb-suse/playbook.yml b/ansible/build-fb-suse/playbook.yml
index 8e40b82d..b7248780 100644
--- a/ansible/build-fb-suse/playbook.yml
+++ b/ansible/build-fb-suse/playbook.yml
@@ -38,6 +38,23 @@
   tasks:
     - name: Wait for connection to be available
       wait_for_connection:
+    - name: Debug repository configuration
+      command: zypper repos
+      register: repo_output
+      ignore_errors: yes
+
+    - name: Print repository configuration
+      debug:
+        var: repo_output.stdout_lines
+
+    - name: Refresh repositories
+      command: zypper refresh
+      register: refresh_output
+      ignore_errors: yes
+
+    - name: Print refresh output
+      debug:
+        var: refresh_output.stdout_lines
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       community.general.zypper:
@@ -58,9 +75,30 @@
       become: true
       register: install_status
       until: install_status is success
-      # Retry up to 5 minutes, because at startup the zypper command might temporarily hold a lock that prevents installing packages
       delay: 15
       retries: 20
+    # - name: Install dependencies
+    #   community.general.zypper:
+    #     name:
+    #       - git
+    #       - flex
+    #       - wget
+    #       - libyaml-devel
+    #       - libopenssl-devel
+    #       - systemd-devel
+    #       - gcc
+    #       - gcc-c++
+    #       - rpmbuild
+    #       - "{{ cpp_with_version }}"
+    #     state: present
+    #     oldpackage: true
+    #     force_resolution: true
+    #   become: true
+    #   register: install_status
+    #   until: install_status is success
+    #   # Retry up to 5 minutes, because at startup the zypper command might temporarily hold a lock that prevents installing packages
+    #   delay: 15
+    #   retries: 20
 
     - name: Download and extract Bison {{ bison_version }}
       unarchive:
diff --git a/versions/common.yml b/versions/common.yml
index 7ea346f0..4e9c69e8 100644
--- a/versions/common.yml
+++ b/versions/common.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-fbVersion: 3.1.2
+#fluent bit version 
+fbVersion: 3.1.9
 
 #  This file, together with each distro file are processed and merged incrementally to
 #  build all the information required to download and test each package. Each package ends