diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-cuvs-image.yml b/.github/workflows/build-cuvs-image.yml
index 19d14d1c..d6e1b366 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-cuvs-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-cuvs-image.yml
@@ -61,20 +61,15 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Install gha-tools
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p /tmp/gha-tools
-          curl -s -L 'https://github.com/rapidsai/gha-tools/releases/latest/download/tools.tar.gz' | tar -xz -C /tmp/gha-tools
-          echo "/tmp/gha-tools" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
       - name: Clean up condarc for release builds
         run: |
           GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)"
           GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG="${GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG:1}" # remove leading 'v'
           if [[ ! $GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG =~ [a-z] ]]; then
-            rapids-logger 'Most recent tag is for release, adding the `rapidsai` channel and removing the `rapidsai-nightly` channel.'
+            echo 'Most recent tag is for release, adding the `rapidsai` channel and removing the `rapidsai-nightly` channel.'
             sed -i 's|rapidsai-nightly|rapidsai|' context/condarc
           else
-            rapids-logger "Most recent tag is an alpha. Build will use nightly channels."
+            echo "Most recent tag is an alpha. Build will use nightly channels."
           fi
       - name: Login to DockerHub
         uses: docker/login-action@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-rapids-image.yml b/.github/workflows/build-rapids-image.yml
index 75cd36c2..b2ffd040 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-rapids-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-rapids-image.yml
@@ -59,20 +59,15 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Install gha-tools
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p /tmp/gha-tools
-          curl -s -L 'https://github.com/rapidsai/gha-tools/releases/latest/download/tools.tar.gz' | tar -xz -C /tmp/gha-tools
-          echo "/tmp/gha-tools" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
       - name: Clean up condarc for release builds
         run: |
           GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)"
           GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG="${GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG:1}" # remove leading 'v'
           if [[ ! $GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG =~ [a-z] ]]; then
-            rapids-logger 'Most recent tag is for release, adding the `rapidsai` channel and removing the `rapidsai-nightly` channel.'
+            echo 'Most recent tag is for release, adding the `rapidsai` channel and removing the `rapidsai-nightly` channel.'
             sed -i 's|rapidsai-nightly|rapidsai|' context/condarc
           else
-            rapids-logger "Most recent tag is an alpha. Build will use nightly channels."
+            echo "Most recent tag is an alpha. Build will use nightly channels."
           fi
       - name: Login to DockerHub
         uses: docker/login-action@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-test-publish-images.yml b/.github/workflows/build-test-publish-images.yml
index 8082beb1..b4fe73ae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-test-publish-images.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-test-publish-images.yml
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ jobs:
           GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG="${GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG:1}" # remove leading 'v'
           ALPHA_TAG=""
           if [[ $GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG =~ [a-z] ]]; then
-            rapids-logger "Most recent tag is an alpha tag"
+            echo "Most recent tag is an alpha tag"
             ALPHA_TAG="a"
           fi
           RAPIDS_VER="$(echo $GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG | awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="."} NF--')" # Convert full tag to YY.MM
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 8919b4d4..04ae5ff2 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ repos:
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
       - id: trailing-whitespace
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.14.7
+    rev: v0.14.10
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: ["--config", "pyproject.toml"]
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index eb856407..9c96a6a2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ apt-get purge -y --auto-remove rsync
 rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 EOF
 
-
 # Base image
 FROM rapidsai/miniforge-cuda:${RAPIDS_VER}-cuda${CUDA_VER}-base-${LINUX_VER}-py${PYTHON_VER} AS base
 ARG CUDA_VER
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ rapids-mamba-retry install -y -n base \
     "rapids=${RAPIDS_VER}.*" \
     "python=${PYTHON_VER}.*" \
     "cuda-version=${CUDA_VER%.*}.*" \
-    ipython \
+    'ipython>=8.37.0' \
     'rapids-cli==0.1.*' \
     'openssl==3.6.0'
 conda clean -afy
@@ -98,7 +97,6 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/home/rapids/entrypoint.sh"]
 
 CMD ["ipython"]
 
-
 # Notebooks image
 FROM base AS notebooks
 
@@ -124,8 +122,8 @@ EOF
 RUN <<EOF
 rapids-mamba-retry install -y -n base \
     "jupyterlab=4" \
-    dask-labextension \
-    jupyterlab-nvdashboard
+    'dask-labextension>=7.0.0' \
+    'jupyterlab-nvdashboard>=0.13.0'
 conda clean -afy
 EOF
 
diff --git a/cuvs-bench/gpu/Dockerfile b/cuvs-bench/gpu/Dockerfile
index fd4b1cfe..03177352 100644
--- a/cuvs-bench/gpu/Dockerfile
+++ b/cuvs-bench/gpu/Dockerfile
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ CMD ["--dataset fashion-mnist-784-euclidean", "", "--algorithms cuvs_cagra", ""]
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "/data/scripts/run_benchmark.sh"]
 
-
 FROM cuvs-bench AS cuvs-bench-datasets
 
 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-euo", "pipefail", "-c"]