diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
index d9722a67..39adec81 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -16,13 +16,40 @@ jobs:
           git reset --hard origin/main
           echo "Deployed: $(git log -1 --oneline)"
 
-      - name: Restart Odoo with updated config
+      - name: Build Odoo image
+        run: |
+          cd /opt/encoach/encoach_backend_new_v2
+          # odoo.conf is not in the repo; copy from the persistent override for the build context
+          cp /opt/encoach/overrides/odoo.conf ./odoo.conf
+          docker compose \
+            -f docker-compose.yml \
+            -f /opt/encoach/overrides/encoach.override.yml \
+            build odoo
+          rm -f ./odoo.conf
+
+      - name: Run DB migrations
+        run: |
+          # Dynamically fetch the list of installed encoach_* modules from the DB
+          MODULES=$(docker exec encoach-v4-db psql -U odoo -d encoach_v2 -tAc \
+            "SELECT string_agg(name, ,) FROM ir_module_module WHERE state=installed AND name LIKE encoach%;")
+          echo "Upgrading modules: $MODULES"
+
+          docker run --rm \
+            --network encoach_backend_new_v2_default \
+            -v /opt/encoach/overrides/odoo.conf:/etc/odoo/odoo.conf:ro \
+            -v /opt/encoach/encoach_backend_new_v2:/mnt/extra-addons:ro \
+            -v /opt/encoach/encoach_backend_new_v2/openeducat_erp-19.0/openeducat_erp-19.0:/mnt/extra-addons/openeducat_erp-19.0:ro \
+            -v encoach_backend_new_v2_odoo-web-data:/var/lib/odoo \
+            encoach-backend:latest \
+            odoo -u "$MODULES" --stop-after-init 2>&1 | tail -20
+
+      - name: Restart Odoo
         run: |
           cd /opt/encoach/encoach_backend_new_v2
           docker compose \
             -f docker-compose.yml \
             -f /opt/encoach/overrides/encoach.override.yml \
-            up -d odoo
+            up -d --no-deps odoo
 
       - name: Smoke test
         run: |
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index d805796e..9c8aca68 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FROM odoo:19.0
 USER root
 
 COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
-RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt
+RUN pip3 install --break-system-packages --no-cache-dir --ignore-installed typing_extensions -r /tmp/requirements.txt
 
 COPY custom_addons /opt/odoo/custom_addons
 COPY odoo.conf /etc/odoo/odoo.conf
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1b3913b8..6158173d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ psycopg2-binary>=2.9.0
 # `OpenAIService` wrapper; LangGraph only adds the state machine + tool routing on top.
 langgraph>=0.2.0
 langchain-core>=0.3.0
+sentence_transformers>=2.7.0