diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 1f45a3c22dd8b07657bb0e2dd28257a893f236fc..bfac6b0012cb067657567381752a600736e7d788 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
 # Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
-# Copyright (C) 2019 Henrik tom Wörden 
+# Copyright (C) 2019 Henrik tom Wörden
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -134,7 +134,12 @@ unittest_py3.8:
     # actual test
     - caosdb-crawler --help
     - pytest --cov=caosdb -vv ./unittests
-    
+
+unittest_py3.10:
+  tags: [cached-dind]
+  stage: test
+  image: python:3.10
+  script: *python_test_script
 
 inttest:
   tags: [docker]
@@ -239,7 +244,7 @@ build-testenv:
 
       - docker login -u gitlab-ci-token -p $CI_JOB_TOKEN $CI_REGISTRY
         # use here general latest or specific branch latest...
-      - docker build 
+      - docker build
         --build-arg PYLIB=${PYLIB}
         --build-arg ADVANCED=${ADVANCED:dev}
         --file .docker/Dockerfile