diff --git a/src/3.8/Dockerfile b/src/3.8/Dockerfile
index 005c03c..29fc7a3 100644
--- a/src/3.8/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/3.8/Dockerfile
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     python3-jupyter-core \
     python3-mpi4py \
     python3-nose \
-    python3-pandas \
     python3-path \
     python3-pip \
     python3-pytest \
@@ -124,10 +123,11 @@ RUN mkdir ${SRC_PATH}/nest-build && cd $_ && \
     python3 -m pip install --upgrade scipy && \
     python3 -m pip install --upgrade gsl wheel setuptools swig
 
-#Latest update to nestml v8.0.0-rc1
-RUN python3 -m pip install nestml==8.0.0rc2 && \
+#Latest update to nestml v8.0.0-rc3
+RUN python3 -m pip install NESTML==8.0.0rc3 && \
     python3 -m pip install nestml-server@git+https://github.com/babsey/nestml-server@v1.0-b6 && \
-    python3 -m pip install --upgrade pygsl@git+https://github.com/pygsl/pygsl@v2.4.0
+    python3 -m pip install --upgrade pygsl@git+https://github.com/pygsl/pygsl@v2.4.0 && \
+    python3 -m pip install pandas "numpy<=1.26"
 
 COPY entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
 RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh 
diff --git a/src/dev/Dockerfile b/src/dev/Dockerfile
index 34c082d..2de9589 100644
--- a/src/dev/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/dev/Dockerfile
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ python3 -m pip install --upgrade nest-desktop && \
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade scipy && \
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade gsl wheel setuptools swig
 
-#Latest update to nestml v8.0.0-rc1
-RUN python3 -m pip install nestml==8.0.0rc2 && \
+#Latest update to nestml v8.0.0-rc3
+RUN python3 -m pip install nestml==8.0.0rc3 && \
 python3 -m pip install nestml-server@git+https://github.com/babsey/nestml-server@v1.0-b6 && \
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade pygsl@git+https://github.com/pygsl/pygsl@v2.4.0