diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 448707e..95fbdcc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ jobs:
   preview:
     runs-on: quantecon-gpu
     container:
-      image: ghcr.io/quantecon/lecture-python-container:cuda-12.6.0-anaconda-2024-10-py312-b
+      image: ghcr.io/quantecon/lecture-python-container:cuda-12.8.1-anaconda-2024-10-py312
       options: --gpus all
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Display Pip Versions
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: pip list
-      - name: Download "build" folder (cache)
-        uses: dawidd6/action-download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          workflow: cache.yml
-          branch: main
-          name: build-cache
-          path: _build
+      # - name: Download "build" folder (cache)
+      #   uses: dawidd6/action-download-artifact@v3
+      #   with:
+      #     workflow: cache.yml
+      #     branch: main
+      #     name: build-cache
+      #     path: _build
       # Build Assets (Download Notebooks and PDF via LaTeX)
       - name: Build Download Notebooks (sphinx-tojupyter)
         shell: bash -l {0}
diff --git a/lectures/status.md b/lectures/status.md
index 1118072..7350476 100644
--- a/lectures/status.md
+++ b/lectures/status.md
@@ -21,6 +21,19 @@ This table contains the latest execution statistics.
 These lectures are built on `linux` instances through `github actions` that has 
 access to a `gpu`. These lectures make use of the nvidia `T4` card.
 
+These lectures are using the following python version
+
+```{code-cell} ipython
+!python --version
+```
+
+and the following package versions
+
+```{code-cell} ipython
+:tags: [hide-output]
+!conda list
+```
+
 You can check the backend used by JAX using:
 
 ```{code-cell} ipython3
@@ -33,4 +46,5 @@ and the hardware we are running on:
 
 ```{code-cell} ipython3
 !nvidia-smi
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
+