diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 9ff90e9ccdc5c5309dec23a1beda38ee97e03fa7..6bca8bf02ea5e77c89609b892d064f1f684d6a90 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
 before_script:
   - git lfs pull
 
+
+stages:
+    - test
+    - deploy
+
+
 test_enpt:
+  stage: test
   script:
     - source /root/anaconda3/bin/activate
     - export GDAL_DATA=/root/anaconda3/share/gdal
     - export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/root  # /root <- here are the sicor tables
-    - make lint
+    # run nosetests
     - make nosetests  # test are called here
+    # create the docs
     - make docs
   artifacts:
     paths:
@@ -16,20 +24,41 @@ test_enpt:
     - nosetests.html
     - nosetests.xml
     - tests/linting
+  when: always
+
+
+test_styles:
+  stage: test
+  script:
+    - source /root/anaconda3/bin/activate
+    - export GDAL_DATA=/root/anaconda3/share/gdal
+    - export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/root  # /root <- directory needed later
+    - make lint
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+    - tests/linting/flake8.log
+    - tests/linting/pycodestyle.log
+    - tests/linting/pydocstyle.log
+    when: always
 
 
 test_enpt_install:
+  stage: test
   script:
     - source /root/anaconda3/bin/activate
-    - conda create -y -q --name enpt python=3.5
+    - conda create -y -q --name enpt python=3
     - source activate enpt
     # install some dependencies that cause trouble when installed via pip
-    - conda install -y -q -c conda-forge gdal scikit-image matplotlib
+    - conda install -y -c conda-forge scipy  # scikit-image, matplotlib
+    # install not pip-installable deps of geoarray
+    - conda install -y -c conda-forge numpy scikit-image matplotlib pandas gdal rasterio pyproj basemap shapely
+    - conda install -y -c conda-forge 'icu=58.*' lxml  # fixes bug for conda-forge gdal build
     # install enpt
     - make install
     - cd ..
     - pwd
     - ls
+    # test importability
     - python -c "import enpt; print(enpt)"
     - python -c "from enpt.model.images import EnMAPL1Product_SensorGeo"
 
@@ -39,14 +68,23 @@ pages:
   dependencies:
     - test_enpt
   script:
+    # Create the public directory
+    - rm -rf public
+    - mkdir public
+    - mkdir -p public/doc
     - mkdir -p public/coverage
-    - cp -r htmlcov/* public/coverage/
     - mkdir -p public/nosetests_reports
-    - cp nosetests.* public/nosetests_reports/
-    - mkdir -p public/doc
+    # Copy over the docs
     - cp -r docs/_build/html/* public/doc/
-    - mkdir -p public/linting
-    - cp tests/linting/*.log public/linting
+    # Copy over the coverage reports
+    - cp -r htmlcov/* public/coverage/
+    # Copy over the nosetests reports
+    - cp nosetests.* public/nosetests_reports/
+    # Check if everything is working great
+    - ls -al public
+    - ls -al public/doc
+    - ls -al public/coverage
+    - ls -al public/nosetests_reports
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - public
diff --git a/enpt/__init__.py b/enpt/__init__.py
index a3df47458935e90b73040f1f3d0b10149dc12cea..3e9bd09cd05dfc420a0ac287cde849a464d5ef83 100644
--- a/enpt/__init__.py
+++ b/enpt/__init__.py
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 
 __author__ = """Karl Segl"""
 __email__ = 'segl@gfz-potsdam.de'
-__version__ = '0.2.7'
-__versionalias__ = '2017-08-30_02'
+__version__ = '0.2.8'
+__versionalias__ = '2017-10-11_01'
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e18b4cf7323e4c9370af9235c1e9e7aaf387d6dd..2ae84987332acde24847fb136f2141e3a7a57e33 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 numpy
 scipy
-geoarray
\ No newline at end of file
+geoarray>=0.6.12
+spectral>=0.16
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 409dec247657066e2f5b79b4a7e20d227fd41dfa..80ad6bd84e9b168d325735e2a835b54405294b0f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ with open('HISTORY.rst') as history_file:
     history = history_file.read()
 
 requirements = [  # put package requirements here
-    'numpy', 'scipy', 'geoarray', 'spectral'
+    'numpy', 'scipy', 'geoarray>=0.6.12', 'spectral>=0.16'
 ]
 
 test_requirements = ['coverage', 'nose', 'nose-htmloutput', 'rednose']
 
 setup(
     name='enpt',
-    version='0.2.7',
+    version='0.2.8',
     description="EnMAP PT",
     long_description=readme + '\n\n' + history,
     author="Karl Segl",
diff --git a/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/build_enpt_testsuite_image.sh b/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/build_enpt_testsuite_image.sh
index ae58e210b4909c9b417ccb571c0b4be3b6b4d561..11194540bc7ca81074889a2f597433d5225557ec 100755
--- a/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/build_enpt_testsuite_image.sh
+++ b/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/build_enpt_testsuite_image.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ sudo docker exec -it ${gitlab_runner} /bin/bash -c "export RUNNER_EXECUTOR=docke
   --registration-token '${token}' \
   --run-untagged=true \
   --locked=true \
-  --tag-list  sicor_client \
+  --tag-list  enpt_client \
   --description '${runner_name}' \
   --docker-image '${tag}' "
diff --git a/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/context/enpt_ci.docker b/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/context/enpt_ci.docker
index 87477a53e1696d13ac96c0ca27cf8bcd217b0520..f065c180347576ac5b2304ed691de638501f3c9f 100644
--- a/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/context/enpt_ci.docker
+++ b/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/context/enpt_ci.docker
@@ -1,28 +1,30 @@
 FROM centos:7
+# matplotlib requires freetype, freetype-devel, libpng-devel under centos
+# scikit-image requires blas-devel, lapack-devel, atlas-devel under centos
 RUN yum update -y && \
-    yum install -y wget vim bzip2 gcc gcc-c++ make libgl1-mesa-glx mesa-libGL qt5-qtbase-gui git texlive
+    yum install -y wget vim bzip2 gcc gcc-c++ make libgl1-mesa-glx mesa-libGL qt5-qtbase-gui git nano tree gdb texlive
 
-ENV anaconda_dl 'Anaconda3-4.3.1-Linux-x86_64.sh'
-RUN /bin/bash -i -c "cd /root; wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/$anaconda_dl ; \
-    bash -i /root/$anaconda_dl -b ; \
-    rm -f /root/$anaconda_dl"
+# change version numbers for future upgrades
+ENV miniconda_dl 'Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh'
+ENV envconfig 'environment_enpt.yml'
+ENV git_lfs_v='2.1.1'
 
-# 'conda install --yes -c conda-forge 'icu=58.*' lxml' fixing a bug for conda-forge gdal build, as of 06/2017
-RUN /bin/bash -i -c "source /root/anaconda3/bin/activate ; \
-    conda install --yes -c conda-forge gdal ; \
-    conda install --yes -c conda-forge 'icu=58.*' lxml ; \
-    conda install --yes -c conda-forge glymur ; \
-    pip install sphinx-argparse flake8 pycodestyle pylint pydocstyle nose nose2 nose-htmloutput coverage rednose; "
+RUN /bin/bash -i -c "cd /root; wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/$miniconda_dl ; \
+    bash -i /root/$miniconda_dl -b ; \
+    rm -f /root/$miniconda_dl"
 
-# installing git large file support, see here: https://git-lfs.github.com/ , change version number below for future upgrades
-ENV git_lfs_v='2.1.1'
+# copy some needed stuff to /root
+COPY *.yml /root/
+
+# create an environment with all packages specified in $envconfig
+RUN /bin/bash -i -c "source /root/miniconda3/bin/activate ; \
+    conda env update -f /root/$envconfig"
+
+# install git lfs
+RUN /bin/bash -i -c "curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.rpm.sh | bash"
+
+# install git large file support, see here: https://git-lfs.github.com/
 RUN /bin/bash -i -c "wget https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/releases/download/v${git_lfs_v}/git-lfs-linux-amd64-${git_lfs_v}.tar.gz; \
     tar -zxvf git-lfs-linux-amd64-${git_lfs_v}.tar.gz; \
     cd git-lfs-${git_lfs_v}; \
     bash ./install.sh"
-
-# set matplotlib backend to Agg as default, Qt won't work in headless docker containers
-RUN bash -i -c 'source /root/anaconda3/bin/activate; \
-    sed -i "/backend      : tkagg/c\backend      : Agg" $(python -c "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.matplotlib_fname())"); \
-    sed -i "/backend      : Qt4Agg/c\backend      : Agg" $(python -c "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.matplotlib_fname())"); \
-    sed -i "/backend      : qt5agg/c\backend      : Agg" $(python -c "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.matplotlib_fname())")'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/context/environment_enpt.yml b/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/context/environment_enpt.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87d3ae66deaeab44924403ad53cb4354a2869dab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/gitlab_CI_docker/context/environment_enpt.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+name: enpt
+
+channels: &id1
+  - http://conda.anaconda.org/ioam  # only for holoviews
+  - http://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge
+
+dependencies:
+  - python=3.*.*
+  - numpy
+
+  # geoarray
+  - pyqt
+  - gdal
+  - scikit-image
+  - rasterio
+  - pyproj
+  - lxml
+  - geopandas
+  - ipython
+  - matplotlib
+  - basemap
+  - shapely
+  - holoviews
+  - bokeh
+  - pip:
+    - scipy
+    - geoarray>=0.6.12
+    - spectral>=0.16
+    - sphinx-argparse
+    - flake8
+    - pycodestyle
+    - pylint
+    - pydocstyle
+    - nose
+    - nose2
+    - nose-htmloutput
+    - coverage
+    - rednose
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