diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index ee6600327..afdc6c75b 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ repos:
       - id: name-tests-test
         args: ["--pytest-test-first"]
   - repo: https://github.com/abravalheri/validate-pyproject
-    rev: v0.14
+    rev: v0.15
     hooks:
       - id: validate-pyproject
         name: Validate pyproject.toml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
   - repo: https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinx-lint
-    rev: v0.6.8
+    rev: v0.7.0
     hooks:
       - id: sphinx-lint
         args: [--enable, all, "--disable=line-too-long,leaked-markup"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0a4342dd3..c10562783 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ![Python-graphblas](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-graphblas/python-graphblas/main/docs/_static/img/logo-horizontal-medium-big.svg)
 
+[![Powered by NumFOCUS](https://img.shields.io/badge/powered%20by-NumFOCUS-orange.svg?style=flat&colorA=E1523D&colorB=007D8A)](https://numfocus.org)
+[![pyOpenSci](https://tinyurl.com/y22nb8up)](https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-review/issues/81)
+[![Discord](https://img.shields.io/badge/Chat-Discord-Blue?color=5865f2)](https://discord.com/invite/vur45CbwMz)
+<br>
 [![conda-forge](https://img.shields.io/conda/vn/conda-forge/python-graphblas.svg)](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/python-graphblas)
 [![pypi](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/python-graphblas.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-graphblas/)
 [![PyPI - Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/python-graphblas)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-graphblas/)
@@ -8,11 +12,8 @@
 [![Tests](https://github.com/python-graphblas/python-graphblas/workflows/Tests/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://github.com/python-graphblas/python-graphblas/actions)
 [![Docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/python-graphblas/badge/?version=latest)](https://python-graphblas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
 [![Coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/python-graphblas/python-graphblas/graph/badge.svg?token=D7HHLDPQ2Q)](https://codecov.io/gh/python-graphblas/python-graphblas)
-[![pyOpenSci](https://tinyurl.com/y22nb8up)](https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-review/issues/81)
-<br>
 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.7328791.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7328791)
 [![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/python-graphblas/python-graphblas/HEAD?filepath=notebooks%2FIntro%20to%20GraphBLAS%20%2B%20SSSP%20example.ipynb)
-[![Discord](https://img.shields.io/badge/Chat-Discord-blue)](https://discord.com/invite/vur45CbwMz)
 
 Python library for GraphBLAS: high-performance sparse linear algebra for scalable graph analytics.
 For algorithms, see
diff --git a/scripts/check_versions.sh b/scripts/check_versions.sh
index c373692ed..dc0331359 100755
--- a/scripts/check_versions.sh
+++ b/scripts/check_versions.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ conda search 'numpy[channel=conda-forge]>=1.26.0'
 conda search 'pandas[channel=conda-forge]>=2.1.1'
 conda search 'scipy[channel=conda-forge]>=1.11.3'
 conda search 'networkx[channel=conda-forge]>=3.1'
-conda search 'awkward[channel=conda-forge]>=2.4.5'
+conda search 'awkward[channel=conda-forge]>=2.4.6'
 conda search 'sparse[channel=conda-forge]>=0.14.0'
 conda search 'fast_matrix_market[channel=conda-forge]>=1.7.3'
 conda search 'numba[channel=conda-forge]>=0.57.1'