diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6acf461..069a953 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ Your queries can add API parameters to each operation by using the [parameter ma
 
 Your queries can include special [decorators](#decorator-syntax) to add extra functionality to your API.
 
+grlc also supports SPARQL queries expressed as json, using the [SPARQL Transformer](https://github.com/D2KLab/py-sparql-transformer) [Query in JSON](https://github.com/D2KLab/sparql-transformer/blob/master/README.md#query-in-json) syntax. (**Tip**: the [SPARQL Transformer Playground](https://d2klab.github.io/sparql-transformer/) is very useful when building queries with this syntax).
+
 ### Query location
 grlc can load your query collection from different locations: from a GitHub repository (`api-git`), from a GitLab repository (`api-gitlab`), from local storage (`api-local`), and from a specification file (`api-url`). Each type of location has specific features and is accessible via different paths. However all location types produce the same beautiful APIs.
 
diff --git a/config.default.ini b/config.default.ini
index f272b09..205e7e4 100644
--- a/config.default.ini
+++ b/config.default.ini
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ password = none
 debug = True
 
 [api_gitlab]
-gitlab_url=https://gitlab
\ No newline at end of file
+gitlab_url=https://gitlab.com
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e97c415..9e24c76 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 docopt-ng==0.9.0
 Flask==3.0.3
-Flask-Cors==4.0.0
-pyaml==24.4.0
+Flask-Cors==5.0.0
+pyaml==24.9.0
 python-gitlab==4.12.1
 rdflib==7.0.0
 requests==2.32.3
 SPARQLTransformer==2.4.0
 PyGithub==2.3.0
-gunicorn==22.0.0; sys_platform!="win32"
+gunicorn==23.0.0; sys_platform!="win32"
 waitress>=1.4.2; sys_platform=="win32"