diff --git a/.ci/install.sh b/.ci/install.sh
index 76a006c..b31f482 100755
--- a/.ci/install.sh
+++ b/.ci/install.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 
 # workaround for a bug in debian9, i.e. starting mysql hangs
-if [ "$1" = "debian11" ] || [ "$1" = "debian12" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ]; then
+if [ "$1" = "debian11" ] || [ "$1" = "debian12" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ]; then
     docker exec --user root ndts service mariadb restart
 else
     docker exec --user root ndts service mysql stop
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ fi
 docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get -qq install -y xvfb  libxcb1 libx11-xcb1 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-image0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-render-util0 xkb-data tango-common; sleep 10'
 
 if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then exit 255; fi
-if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ]; then
+if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ]; then
     # docker exec  --user tango ndts /bin/bash -c '/usr/lib/tango/DataBaseds 2 -ORBendPoint giop:tcp::10000  &'
     docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'echo -e "[client]\nuser=root\npassword=rootpw" > /root/.my.cnf'
     docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'echo -e "[client]\nuser=tango\nhost=localhost\npassword=rootpw" > /var/lib/tango/.my.cnf'
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ fi
 echo "install tango-db"
 docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'apt-get -qq update; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq install -y tango-db; sleep 10'
 if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then exit 255; fi
-if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ]; then
+if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ]; then
     docker exec  --user tango ndts /usr/bin/mysql -e 'create database tango'
     docker exec  --user tango ndts /bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/mysql tango < /usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/tango-db/install/mysql'
 fi
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ docker exec  --user root ndts chown -R tango:tango /tmp/runtime-tango
 
 docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get -qq install -y xvfb  libxcb1 libx11-xcb1 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-image0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-render-util0 xkb-data'
 if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then exit 255; fi
-if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ]; then
+if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ]; then
     # docker exec  --user tango ndts /bin/bash -c '/usr/lib/tango/DataBaseds 2 -ORBendPoint giop:tcp::10000  &'
     docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get -qq install -y libxcb-xinerama0'
     docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get -qq install -y libxkbcommon-x11-0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xfixes0 libegl1-mesa '
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ if [ "$2" = "2" ]; then
 else
     echo "install nxsconfigserver-db"
     docker exec --user root ndts /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get  install -y   nxsconfigserver-db; sleep 10'
-    if [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ]; then
+    if [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ]; then
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /usr/bin/mysql -e 'GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nxsconfig.* TO "tango"@"%" identified by "rootpw"'
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /usr/bin/mysql -e 'GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nxsconfig.* TO "tango"@"localhost" identified by "rootpw"'
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /usr/bin/mysql -e 'FLUSH PRIVILEGES'
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ else
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'cd itango-src; git checkout tags/v0.1.7 -b b0.1.7; python3 setup.py install'
 	# docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'cd taurus-src; git checkout; python3 setup.py install'
     fi
-    if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] ||[ "$1" = "ubuntu20.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu22.04" ] || [ "$1" = "debian11" ]|| [ "$1" = "debian12" ]; then
+    if  [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu20.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu22.04" ] || [ "$1" = "debian11" ]|| [ "$1" = "debian12" ]; then
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get install -y git python3-six python3-numpy graphviz python3-sphinx g++ build-essential python3-dev pkg-config python3-all-dev  python3-setuptools libtango-dev python3-setuptools python3-tango python3-tz; apt-get -qq install -y nxsconfigserver-db; sleep 10'
     else
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get install -y git python3-six python3-numpy graphviz python3-sphinx g++ build-essential python3-dev pkg-config python3-all-dev  python3-setuptools libtango-dev python3-setuptools python3-pytango python3-tz python3-enum34 python3ango; apt-get -qq install -y nxsconfigserver-db; sleep 10'
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ if [ "$2" = "2" ]; then
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'cd sardana-src; git checkout tags/2.8.4 -b b2.8.4; python setup.py install'
     fi
 else
-    if [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ]; then
+    if [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ]; then
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive;  apt-get -qq update; apt-get -qq install -y python3-taurus-pyqtgraph'
     fi
     echo "install sardana, taurus and nexdatas"
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ else
     else
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -qq update; apt-get -qq install -y python3-nxsconfigserver python3-nxswriter python3-nxstools python3-nxsrecselector python3-setuptools nxsrecselector nxswriter nxsconfigserver nxstools python3-packaging'
     fi
-    if [ "$1" = "ubuntu20.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu22.04" ] || [ "$1" = "debian11" ] || [ "$1" = "debian12" ] || [ "$1" = "debian10" ]  ; then
+    if [ "$1" = "ubuntu20.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.04" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu24.10" ] || [ "$1" = "ubuntu22.04" ] || [ "$1" = "debian11" ] || [ "$1" = "debian12" ] || [ "$1" = "debian10" ]  ; then
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive;  apt-get -qq update; apt-get -qq install -y python3-taurus python3-sardana'
     else
 	docker exec  --user root ndts /bin/sh -c 'git clone https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus taurus-src; cd taurus-src'
diff --git a/.ci/ubuntu24.10_py3/Dockerfile b/.ci/ubuntu24.10_py3/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e80c7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/ubuntu24.10_py3/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+FROM ubuntu:24.10
+
+MAINTAINER DESY, Jan Kotanski <jankotan@gmail.com>
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+RUN apt-get -qq update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && apt-get install -y  curl gpg-agent mariadb-client python3-h5py python3-sphinx apt-utils debconf-utils net-tools  omniidl libomniorb4-dev libcos4-dev libzmq3-dev python3-setuptools python3-setuptools libterm-readline-gnu-perl software-properties-common coreutils procps  apt-transport-https gnupg2 ca-certificates wget python3-h5py python3-sphinx apt-utils debconf-utils net-tools  omniidl libomniorb4-dev libcos4-dev libzmq3-dev python3-setuptools python3-lxml  liblog4j1.2-java python3-setuptools python3-pytest  python3-opencv
+
+RUN echo 'debconf debconf/frontend select Noninteractive' | debconf-set-selections
+RUN curl -s http://repos.pni-hdri.de/debian_repo.pub.gpg  | gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring gnupg-ring:/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg --import
+RUN chmod 644 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg
+
+RUN cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d && wget http://repos.pni-hdri.de/oracular-pni-hdri.list \
+    && useradd -ms /bin/bash tango
+
+# switch to the german archive mirror
+# RUN sed -i 's|http://archive|http://de.archive|g' /etc/apt/sources.list
+
+# install packages
+RUN apt-get -qq update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && apt-get -qq dist-upgrade
+RUN apt-get -qq update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && apt-get install -y mariadb-client python3-h5py python3-sphinx apt-utils debconf-utils net-tools  omniidl python3-pninexus python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-qtchecker  python3-pyfai qt5-qmake  qtchooser python3-requests xvfb  libxcb1 libx11-xcb1 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-image0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-render-util0 xkb-data liblog4j1.2-java python3-pyqt5  git python3-tz python3-pyqtgraph python3-setuptools python3-zmq python3-scipy python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit hdf5-filter-plugin-serial-links 
+
+
+RUN  /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "mariadb-server mysql-server/root_password password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "mariadb-server mysql-server/root_password_again password rootpw"' \
+     && apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq install -y mariadb-server python3-mysqldb  dialog \
+     &&  /bin/bash -c 'sleep 10'
+RUN /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "tango-db tango-db/db/app-user string tango"'  \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "tango-db tango-db/mysql/app-pass	password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "tango-db tango-db/mysql/admin-pass password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "tango-db tango-db/password-confirm password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "tango-db tango-db/app-password-confirm password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "nxsconfigserver-db nxsconfigserver-db/mysql/app-pass password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "nxsconfigserver-db nxsconfigserver-db/mysql/admin-pass password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "nxsconfigserver-db nxsconfigserver-db/app-password-confirm password rootpw"' \
+     && /bin/bash -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; debconf-set-selections <<< "nxsconfigserver-db nxsconfigserver-db/db/app-user string tango"' \
+     && sed -i "s/\[mysql\]/\[mysqld\]\nsql_mode = NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION\ncharacter-set-collations = latin1=latin1_swedish_ci\ncharacter-set-server=latin1\n\[mysql\]/g" /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql.cnf
+
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/tango/lib/pkgconfig
+
+ENV MYSQL_HOST=localhost
+ENV DISPLAY=":99.0"
+USER tango
+WORKDIR /home/tango
+
+
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 6d04c70..0285c57 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        os: [debian12, debian11, debian10, ubuntu24.04, ubuntu22.04, ubuntu20.04]
+        os: [debian12, debian11, debian10, ubuntu24.10, ubuntu24.04, ubuntu22.04]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2