diff --git a/custom-nb-image/Dockerfile b/custom-nb-image/Dockerfile
index e4bfcb265..a656618e4 100644
--- a/custom-nb-image/Dockerfile
+++ b/custom-nb-image/Dockerfile
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ RUN pip install codeflare-sdk==${SDK_VERSION} \
 				transformers==4.23.1 \
 				evaluate==0.3.0
 
-RUN chmod -R g+w /opt/app-root/lib/python3.8/site-packages && \
+RUN chmod -R g+w /opt/app-root/lib/python3.9/site-packages && \
 	fix-permissions /opt/app-root -P
diff --git a/custom-nb-image/imagestream.yaml b/custom-nb-image/imagestream.yaml
index bd17076ff..833a42fde 100644
--- a/custom-nb-image/imagestream.yaml
+++ b/custom-nb-image/imagestream.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     opendatahub.io/notebook-image-name:
       "CodeFlare Notebook"
-    opendatahub.io/notebook-image-desc: "Custom Jupyter notebook image with CodeFlare SDK, Python 3.8, Ray 2.5.0 and PyTorch 1.12.1"
+    opendatahub.io/notebook-image-desc: "Custom Jupyter notebook image with CodeFlare SDK, Python 3.9, Ray 2.7.0 and PyTorch 1.12.1"
 spec:
   lookupPolicy:
     local: true