Set upper limit to stop reading the log and return.

It's not working for some reason

It wasn't being used anyway

Prepare to test for adding access tests when workflow has finished

and bump other dependencies' versions while we're at it

Persistence

See merge request !1

due to issues with using docker on gitlab and udocker in general

(doesn't play well with CI)

consolidate code outside of if_else clauses and using less code

by merging them into the new session

remove owner from the class as it is not used