diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 402e7db..43a0352 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ stages:
   - deploy
 
 variables:
-  TIMEZONE: "Europe/Amsterdam" # For the system in general
+  TIMEZONE: "America/New_York" # For the system in general
   DATE_TIMEZONE: ${TIMEZONE} # For PHP
 
   GIT_DEPTH: 1
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ variables:
 
   # These could/should be overridden in an extending job:
   UPDATE_BRANCH_PREFIX: "update_PHP_deps_" # Used for the update branch name, it will be followed by the datetime
-  GIT_USER: "" # Used for the update commit
-  GIT_EMAIL: "" # Used for the update commit
-  GITLAB_USERNAME: "" # Used for pushing the new branch and opening the MR
-  GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN: "" # Used for pushing the new branch and opening the MR
-  MERGE_IF_SUCCESSFUL: "false" # Set to true, to merge automatically if the pipeline succeeds
+  GIT_USER: "DependBot" # Used for the update commit
+  GIT_EMAIL: "webmaster@thetempusproject.com" # Used for the update commit
+  GITLAB_USERNAME: "root" # Used for pushing the new branch and opening the MR
+  GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN: "glpat-PKEmivGtBfbz4DVPdhzk" # Used for pushing the new branch and opening the MR
+  MERGE_IF_SUCCESSFUL: "true" # Set to true, to merge automatically if the pipeline succeeds
   SECONDS_BETWEEN_POOLING: 10 # Nbr of seconds between checking if the MR pipeline is successful, so then it will merge
   JOB_GIT_FLAGS: ""
   JOB_CURL_FLAGS: ""
@@ -29,8 +29,18 @@ variables:
 composer_update:
   stage: update
   image: composer:latest
+  interruptible: true # allows to stop the job if a newer pipeline starts, saving resources and allowing new jobs to start because job concurrency is limited
   script:
-    - composer update
+    - git ${JOB_GIT_FLAGS} fetch origin ${TARGET_BRANCH}
+    - git ${JOB_GIT_FLAGS} checkout ${TARGET_BRANCH}
+    - export DATE_TIME="$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S')"
+    - export MR_BRANCH="${UPDATE_BRANCH_PREFIX}${DATE_TIME}"
+    - git ${JOB_GIT_FLAGS} checkout -b "${MR_BRANCH}"
+    - composer update ${JOB_COMPOSER_FLAGS}
+    - if [ "$(git diff)" == "" ]; then echo "No updates needed!"; exit 0; fi
+    - export TITLE="Update PHP dependencies [${DATE_TIME}]"
+    - git ${JOB_GIT_FLAGS} commit -a -m "${TITLE}"
+    - git ${JOB_GIT_FLAGS} push "${TARGET_REMOTE}" "${MR_BRANCH}"
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - vendor/