diff --git a/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml b/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml
index 472c0d6be9a..853776867d8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ jobs:
         run: conda install anaconda-client
 
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3.5.2
         with:
           repository: IntelPython/devops-tools
           fetch-depth: 0
diff --git a/.github/workflows/generate_coverage.yaml b/.github/workflows/generate_coverage.yaml
index 668b69e1fb5..f52d2dcb6e1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/generate_coverage.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/generate_coverage.yaml
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dpnp dependencies
         run: |
+          # use DPC++ compiler 2023.2 to work around an issue with crash
           conda install cython llvm cmake">=3.21" scikit-build ninja pytest pytest-cov coverage[toml] \
-              dpctl dpcpp_linux-64 sysroot_linux-64">=2.28" mkl-devel-dpcpp tbb-devel onedpl-devel ${{ env.CHANNELS }}
+              dpctl dpcpp_linux-64"=2023.2" sysroot_linux-64">=2.28" mkl-devel-dpcpp tbb-devel"=2021.10" \
+              onedpl-devel ${{ env.CHANNELS }}
 
       - name: Conda info
         run: |