diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-conda/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-conda/devcontainer.json
index 541305f74..3074f8038 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-conda/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-conda/devcontainer.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
       "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:26.10-cpp-mambaforge"
     },
     "cacheFrom": [
-      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.08-cuda12.9-conda"
+      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.10-cuda12.9-conda"
     ]
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-pip/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-pip/devcontainer.json
index 884cb919d..62019e1ec 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-pip/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda12.9-pip/devcontainer.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
       "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:26.10-cpp-cuda12.9-ucx1.19.0-openmpi5.0.10"
     },
     "cacheFrom": [
-      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.08-cuda12.9-pip"
+      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.10-cuda12.9-pip"
     ]
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-conda/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-conda/devcontainer.json
index d2f080c97..60668e23d 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-conda/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-conda/devcontainer.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
       "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:26.10-cpp-mambaforge"
     },
     "cacheFrom": [
-      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.08-cuda13.3-conda"
+      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.10-cuda13.3-conda"
     ]
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-pip/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-pip/devcontainer.json
index 7c37b491a..08794677e 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-pip/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda13.3-pip/devcontainer.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
       "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:26.10-cpp-cuda13.3-ucx1.19.0-openmpi5.0.10"
     },
     "cacheFrom": [
-      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.08-cuda13.3-pip"
+      "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:26.10-cuda13.3-pip"
     ]
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/USAGE.md b/USAGE.md
index d5ce1fb70..c164e10fb 100644
--- a/USAGE.md
+++ b/USAGE.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The pre-built images can be used as the `"image"`, or as the base of a Dockerfil
 
 You can also build a custom devcontainer by composing individual features:
 
-<details><summary>devcontainer.json using individual features</summary><pre>{<br/>  "image": "ubuntu:22.04",<br/>  "features": {<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/cmake:26.8": {},<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/ninja:26.8": {},<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/sccache:26.8": {<br/>      "version": "0.5.4"<br/>    }<br/>  },<br/>  "overrideFeatureInstallOrder": [<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/cmake",<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/ninja",<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/sccache"<br/>  ],<br/>  "workspaceFolder": "/home/coder/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}",<br/>  "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/home/coder/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename},type=bind"<br/>}</pre></details>
+<details><summary>devcontainer.json using individual features</summary><pre>{<br/>  "image": "ubuntu:22.04",<br/>  "features": {<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/cmake:26.10": {},<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/ninja:26.10": {},<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/sccache:26.10": {<br/>      "version": "0.5.4"<br/>    }<br/>  },<br/>  "overrideFeatureInstallOrder": [<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/cmake",<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/ninja",<br/>    "ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/features/sccache"<br/>  ],<br/>  "workspaceFolder": "/home/coder/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}",<br/>  "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/home/coder/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename},type=bind"<br/>}</pre></details>
 
 > **NOTE:** Feature updates published since your most recent image build will invalidate your docker image layer cache, meaning it can take the [devcontainers CLI](https://github.com/devcontainers/cli) longer to initialize containers composed from individual features.
 
diff --git a/ci/release/update-version.sh b/ci/release/update-version.sh
index 5f325b397..29161b147 100755
--- a/ci/release/update-version.sh
+++ b/ci/release/update-version.sh
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ sed_runner "s|features/\([[:alnum:]]\+\):[[:digit:]]\+\.[[:digit:]]\+\"|features
 
 for file in $(find .devcontainer -name devcontainer.json); do
   sed_runner "s|rapidsai/devcontainers:.*-cpp|rapidsai/devcontainers:${NEXT_SHORT_TAG}-cpp|g" "$file"
+  sed_runner "s|ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:\([0-9\.]*\)|ghcr.io/rapidsai/devcontainers/devcontainer:${NEXT_SHORT_TAG}|g" "$file"
   sed_runner "s@rapids-\${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}-[0-9.]*@rapids-\${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}-${NEXT_SHORT_TAG}@g" "${file}"
 done