diff --git a/.github/lychee.toml b/.github/lychee.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2285dd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/lychee.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# For all options, see <https://lychee.cli.rs/usage/config/>
+
+# Verbose program output
+# Accepts log level: "error", "warn", "info", "debug", "trace"
+verbose = "info"
+
+# Interactive progress bar while checking links.
+# Disabled for CI usage
+no_progress = true
+
+# Enable link caching. This can be helpful to avoid checking the same links on
+# multiple runs.
+cache = true
+
+accept = [
+  "200"
+]
+
+# Maximum number of allowed redirects.
+max_redirects = 2
+
+# Maximum number of allowed retries before a link is declared dead.
+max_retries = 2
+
+# Only test links with the given schemes
+# Omit to check links with any other scheme.
+scheme = ["http", "https", "file"]
+
+# Exclude links
+exclude = [
+  # Exclude links as cookies needed to be accepted
+  'https://developer.arm.com'
+]
+
+# Exclude paths from getting checked. The values are treated as regular expressions
+exclude_path = [
+    "\\.txt$",      # skip .txt extensions
+    "\\.html$",     # skip .html extensions
+    "testdata/",    # skip directories named "testdata"
+]
diff --git a/.github/markdown-link-check.jsonc b/.github/markdown-link-check.jsonc
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ee746d1..00000000
--- a/.github/markdown-link-check.jsonc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "ignorePatterns": [
-    {
-      "pattern": "^https://opensource.org"
-    }
-  ],
-  "httpHeaders": [
-    {
-      "urls": ["https://github.com/", "https://guides.github.com/", "https://help.github.com/", "https://docs.github.com/"],
-      "headers": {
-        "Accept-Encoding": "zstd, br, gzip, deflate"
-      }
-    }
-  ],
-}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 546d4de0..caf377ad 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   build-and-verify:
-    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/build-and-verify.yml@v1.0.3
+    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/build-and-verify.yml@v2.0.0
     secrets:
       QLTY_COVERAGE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.QLTY_COVERAGE_TOKEN }}
     with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/markdown.yml b/.github/workflows/markdown.yml
index 3d1e96b6..77765d47 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/markdown.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/markdown.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ on:
       - '.github/workflows/markdown.yml'
       - '.github/markdownlint.json'
       - '.github/markdownlint.jsonc'
+      - '.github/lychee.toml'
       - '**/*.md'
 
 concurrency:
@@ -17,8 +18,8 @@ permissions: read-all
 
 jobs:
   markdown-check:
-    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/markdown-lint.yml@v1.0.3
+    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/markdown-lint.yml@v2.0.0
     with:
       lint-config: '.github/markdownlint.jsonc'
-      link-check-config: '.github/markdown-link-check.jsonc'
+      link-check-config: '.github/lychee.toml'
       ignore-files: 'third_party_licenses.md'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 20b900d0..a19df649 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: read
       actions: write
-    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/build-and-verify.yml@v1.0.3
+    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/build-and-verify.yml@v2.0.0
     with:
       program: cbridge
       go-version-file: ./go.mod
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-workflows.yml b/.github/workflows/update-workflows.yml
index d1136245..b987f938 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update-workflows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update-workflows.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ permissions:
 jobs:
   update-workflows:
     name: Update Workflow References
-    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/update-workflow.yml@v1.0.3
+    uses: Open-CMSIS-Pack/workflows-and-actions-collection/.github/workflows/update-workflow.yml@v2.0.0
     secrets:
       TOKEN_ACCESS: ${{ secrets.GRASCI_WORKFLOW_UPDATE }}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ef319f97..54ccff5f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-[![Build](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/build.yml)
-[![Test](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/test.yml)
+[![Build And Test](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
 [![Markdown](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/markdown.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/markdown.yml)
 [![TPIP](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/tpip-check.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/generator-bridge/actions/workflows/tpip-check.yml)