diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index b2ebad68..4898dfcd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ jobs:
     name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
 
     strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
+      fail-fast: true
       matrix:
         config:
-          - {os: macOS-latest,   r: 'release'}
-          - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release'}
+          - {os: macOS-13,   r: 'release'}
+          - {os: windows-2022, r: 'release'}
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'release'}
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-1'}
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
 
+      - name: Set up Python Version
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.10'
+
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
         with:
           r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9e74f721..1d9e377e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ Imports:
     emoji,
     plyr,
     readxl,
-    yaml
+    yaml,
+    synapser (>= 1.0.0)
 URL: https://github.com/nf-osi/nfportalutils
 BugReports: https://github.com/nf-osi/nfportalutils/issues
 Suggests: 
@@ -50,3 +51,5 @@ Suggests:
     withr
 Config/testthat/edition: 2
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
+Remotes:  
+    github::Sage-Bionetworks/synapser@*release