diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 7bd4a0e711b96ba12c915c420f970745599784c3..9730dde13a179bdd489afbe268843f5b3657f015 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ test:
   image: 
     name: apache/airflow:2.1.3
     entrypoint: [""]
+  variables:
+    - AIRFLOW__SECRETS__BACKEND_KWARGS: '{\"url\" : \"https://zam10036.zam.kfa-juelich.de\", \"user\" : \"${DATACAT_TESTING_USERNAME}\", \"password\" : \"${DATACAT_TESTING_PASSWORD}\"}\' 
   before_script:
+    - echo $AIRFLOW__SECRETS__BACKEND_KWARGS
     - airflow db init
     - pip install -r requirements.txt
     - pip install nose==1.3.7
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2881e27f51283a5279f8ec3d78ec236b2a9e5c97..58c1e5e8f09a25b730297a8a5b4520a7419312e8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ apache-airflow-providers-ssh
 apache-airflow-providers-http
 apache-airflow-providers-sftp
 --index-url https://gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de/api/v4/projects/4405/packages/pypi/simple
-airflow-datacat-integration>=0.0.10
+airflow-datacat-integration>=0.1.0