diff --git a/.github/actions/control-instance/action.yml b/.github/actions/control-instance/action.yml
index 20f8ea52..62392e71 100644
--- a/.github/actions/control-instance/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/control-instance/action.yml
@@ -236,14 +236,3 @@ runs:
           `${{ inputs.command_name }}` command successfully applied to **${{ steps.define.outputs.instance_name }}** instance.
 
           See details at https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
-
-    - name: Update Request Status Label
-      if: ${{ always() }}
-      uses: ./.github/actions/update-request-status-label
-      with:
-        os_cloud: ${{ inputs.os_cloud }}
-        token: ${{ inputs.token }}
-        issue_number: ${{ inputs.issue_number }}
-        instance_name: ${{ steps.define.outputs.instance_name }}
-        instance_status:
-          ${{ inputs.command_name == 'delete' && 'DELETED' || '' }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-instance.yml b/.github/workflows/create-instance.yml
index c2f3af72..8915e7d7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/create-instance.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-instance.yml
@@ -420,14 +420,6 @@ jobs:
 
             See details at https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
 
-      - name: Update Request Status Label
-        uses: ./.github/actions/update-request-status-label
-        with:
-          os_cloud: ${{ vars.MORPHOCLOUD_OS_CLOUD }}
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          instance_name: ${{ steps.define.outputs.instance_name }}
-          issue_number: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
-
       - name: comment (progress)
         uses: ./.github/actions/comment-progress
         with:
diff --git a/cloud-config b/cloud-config
index 3835c9db..d36552ed 100644
--- a/cloud-config
+++ b/cloud-config
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ runcmd:
     # --checkout "{instance-config-mgt-repo-checkout}"
     # -e "{ansible-extra-vars}"
     rm -rf /opt/instance-config-mgt
-    exosphere_sha="80d1836fc7d3f19c5942c7671839c76f2b4f0449" # morpho-cloud-portal-2024.07.17-78a7e2d93
+    exosphere_sha="22ca67a8275d40654e078e71e50f9c5f666dc2e1" # morpho-cloud-portal-2024.07.17-78a7e2d93
     ansible-pull \
       --url "https://github.com/MorphoCloud/exosphere.git" \
       --checkout "$exosphere_sha" \