diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 758c86bbd..425302eaa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -22,9 +22,15 @@ jobs:
             container: "nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:25.03-py3"
     steps:
       - run: |
-          apt update || true
-          pip uninstall -y $(pip list --format=freeze | grep opencv)
+          apt-get update
+          apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y ffmpeg libsm6 libxext6
+          pip install uv && uv --version
+          apt-get purge -y
+          rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+            
+          uv pip uninstall --system $(pip list --format=freeze | grep opencv)
           rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/cv2/
+          uv pip install --no-build-isolation opencv-python-headless
         name: Prepare Python
       - run: |
           curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7cc3c1b2f..ffe093757 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 # mitigates
 # RuntimeError: Failed to import transformers.generation.utils because of the following error (look up to see its traceback):
 # numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96 from C header, got 88 from PyObject
-RUN echo "numpy<2" >> numpy-override.txt
+RUN pip freeze | grep numpy > numpy-override.txt
 
 # mitigates AttributeError: module 'cv2.dnn' has no attribute 'DictValue' \
 # see https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat/issues/40
 RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y tzdata ffmpeg libsm6 libxext6 && \
+    apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y ffmpeg libsm6 libxext6 && \
     pip install uv && uv --version && \
-    apt-get purge -y --auto-remove tzdata && \
+    apt-get purge -y && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN uv pip uninstall --system $(pip list --format=freeze | grep opencv) && \
diff --git a/amd.Dockerfile b/amd.Dockerfile
index c79bed1a8..1a4b5f471 100644
--- a/amd.Dockerfile
+++ b/amd.Dockerfile
@@ -9,21 +9,25 @@ ENV UV_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1
 ENV PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK=1
 ENV PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=1
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
 ENV LANG=C.UTF-8
 ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
-# - ffmpeg and CV2 dependencies are for media handling.
+RUN pip freeze | grep numpy > numpy-override.txt
+
 # mitigates AttributeError: module 'cv2.dnn' has no attribute 'DictValue' \
 # see https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat/issues/40
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y ffmpeg libsm6 libxext6 && \
     pip install uv && uv --version && \
-    apt-get purge -y --auto-remove tzdata && \
+    apt-get purge -y && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN uv pip install --overrides=numpy-override.txt "comfyui[attention,comfyui_manager]@git+https://github.com/hiddenswitch/ComfyUI.git"
 
 WORKDIR /workspace
+# addresses https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/104801
+# and issues reported by importing nodes_canny
 RUN comfyui --quick-test-for-ci --cpu --cwd /workspace
 
 EXPOSE 8188
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 55080823e..d02f05edb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "natsort",
     "OpenEXR",
     "opentelemetry-distro",
-    "opentelemetry-sdk<1.35.0",
-    "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp<=1.27.0",
+    "opentelemetry-sdk",
+    "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp",
     "opentelemetry-propagator-jaeger",
     "opentelemetry-instrumentation",
     "opentelemetry-util-http",