diff --git a/.github/codecov.yml b/.github/codecov.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e152c0a9559
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/codecov.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+coverage:
+  status:
+    project:
+      default:
+        target: auto #default
+        threshold: 1%
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index da14d04e988..a087aa4071e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -13,9 +13,15 @@ name: "CodeQL"
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: ["develop", "releases/*", "v2"]
+    branches:
+      - develop
+      - releases
+      - v2
   pull_request:
-    branches: ["develop", "releases/*", "v2"]
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - reopened
+      - synchronize
   schedule:
     - cron: "0 0 * * 0"
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/perf-accuracy.yml b/.github/workflows/perf-accuracy.yml
index ef367a6f9d1..dc438f6ca89 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/perf-accuracy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/perf-accuracy.yml
@@ -101,4 +101,4 @@ jobs:
       task: ${{ matrix.task }}
       timeout-minutes: 8640
       upload-artifact: true
-      artifact-prefix: ${{ inputs.perf-accuracy-benchmark }}
+      artifact-prefix: ${{ inputs.artifact-prefix }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index c881c8f5cac..b3edd93ce64 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@0ecddd92b62987d7a2ae8911f4bb8ec9e2e4496a # v2.13.1
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3 # v4.3.1
         with:
+          name: artifact-wheels
           path: ./wheelhouse/*.whl
 
   build_sdist:
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ jobs:
         run: python -m build --sdist
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3 # v4.3.1
         with:
+          name: artifact-sdist
           path: dist/*.tar.gz
 
   publish_package:
@@ -52,12 +54,13 @@ jobs:
       packages: write
     steps:
       - name: Download artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@eaceaf801fd36c7dee90939fad912460b18a1ffe # v4.1.2
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@87c55149d96e628cc2ef7e6fc2aab372015aec85 # v4.1.3
         with:
           # unpacks default artifact into dist/
           # if `name: artifact` is omitted, the action will create extra parent dir
-          name: artifact
           path: dist
+          pattern: artifact-*
+          merge-multiple: true
       # to determine where to publish the source distribution to PyPI or TestPyPI
       - name: Check tag
         id: check-tag
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_internal.yml b/.github/workflows/publish_internal.yml
index 2b3856557e5..9dd3c73f3ed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish_internal.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish_internal.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@0ecddd92b62987d7a2ae8911f4bb8ec9e2e4496a # v2.13.1
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3 # v4.3.1
         with:
+          name: artifact-wheels
           path: ./wheelhouse/*.whl
 
   build_sdist:
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ jobs:
         run: python -m build --sdist
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3 # v4.3.1
         with:
+          name: artifact-sdist
           path: dist/*.tar.gz
 
   publish_package:
@@ -62,12 +64,13 @@ jobs:
           pip install --require-hashes --no-deps -r /tmp/otx-publish-requirements.txt
           rm /tmp/otx-publish-requirements.txt
       - name: Download artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@eaceaf801fd36c7dee90939fad912460b18a1ffe # v4.1.2
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@87c55149d96e628cc2ef7e6fc2aab372015aec85 # v4.1.3
         with:
           # unpacks default artifact into dist/
           # if `name: artifact` is omitted, the action will create extra parent dir
-          name: artifact
           path: dist
+          pattern: artifact-*
+          merge-multiple: true
       - name: Check tag
         id: check-tag
         uses: actions-ecosystem/action-regex-match@9e6c4fb3d5e898f505be7a1fb6e7b0a278f6665b # v2.0.2
diff --git a/requirements/action.txt b/requirements/action.txt
index e1de0979cf3..070d2c8ff49 100644
--- a/requirements/action.txt
+++ b/requirements/action.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@ mmcv-full==1.7.0
 mmaction2==0.24.1
 mmdet==2.28.1
 mmdeploy==0.14.0
-yapf<0.40.0  # it should be removed after https://github.com/google/yapf/issues/1118 is solved
diff --git a/requirements/classification.txt b/requirements/classification.txt
index bfe35197d9c..2256a3e755a 100644
--- a/requirements/classification.txt
+++ b/requirements/classification.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ mmcls==0.25.0
 timm==0.6.12
 mmdeploy==0.14.0
 pytorchcv==0.0.67
-yapf<0.40.0  # it should be removed after https://github.com/google/yapf/issues/1118 is solved 
diff --git a/requirements/detection.txt b/requirements/detection.txt
index ddcc33f1347..a2d59b4d6a3 100644
--- a/requirements/detection.txt
+++ b/requirements/detection.txt
@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ timm==0.6.12
 mmdeploy==0.14.0
 mmengine==0.7.4
 scikit-image # specifying different version w.r.t python_version is not effect
-yapf<0.40.0  # it should be removed after https://github.com/google/yapf/issues/1118 is solved 
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 728ef0f5e9a..c46b90672c0 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ onnx==1.15.0
 onnxruntime==1.14.1
 pytest-csv==3.0.*
 tox==4.11.*
-mlflow==2.9.*
+mlflow==2.10.2
diff --git a/requirements/segmentation.txt b/requirements/segmentation.txt
index fdda6fa9cde..48ccce21381 100644
--- a/requirements/segmentation.txt
+++ b/requirements/segmentation.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ mmdeploy==0.14.0
 timm==0.6.12
 pytorchcv==0.0.67
 einops==0.6.1
-yapf<0.40.0  # it should be removed after https://github.com/google/yapf/issues/1118 is solved