diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda11.8-pip/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda11.8-pip/devcontainer.json
index 49f2eedc..eb71dd64 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda11.8-pip/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda11.8-pip/devcontainer.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "args": {
       "CUDA": "11.8",
       "PYTHON_PACKAGE_MANAGER": "pip",
-      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda11.8-ucx1.17.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
+      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda11.8-ucx1.18.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
     }
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda12.0-pip/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda12.0-pip/devcontainer.json
index 20fcb4ca..501a5eab 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda12.0-pip/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda12.0-pip/devcontainer.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "args": {
       "CUDA": "12.0",
       "PYTHON_PACKAGE_MANAGER": "pip",
-      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda12.0-ucx1.17.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
+      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda12.0-ucx1.18.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
     }
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda12.2-pip/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda12.2-pip/devcontainer.json
index 758bf5cd..4d4bac2a 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda12.2-pip/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda12.2-pip/devcontainer.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "args": {
       "CUDA": "12.2",
       "PYTHON_PACKAGE_MANAGER": "pip",
-      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda12.2-ucx1.17.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
+      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda12.2-ucx1.18.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
     }
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/.devcontainer/cuda12.5-pip/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/cuda12.5-pip/devcontainer.json
index a518c8fd..dbb72617 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/cuda12.5-pip/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/cuda12.5-pip/devcontainer.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "args": {
       "CUDA": "12.5",
       "PYTHON_PACKAGE_MANAGER": "pip",
-      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda12.5-ucx1.17.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
+      "BASE": "rapidsai/devcontainers:25.02-cpp-cuda12.5-ucx1.18.0-openmpi-ubuntu22.04"
     }
   },
   "runArgs": [
diff --git a/features/src/rapids-build-utils/devcontainer-feature.json b/features/src/rapids-build-utils/devcontainer-feature.json
index b8807951..c8e46f19 100644
--- a/features/src/rapids-build-utils/devcontainer-feature.json
+++ b/features/src/rapids-build-utils/devcontainer-feature.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "NVIDIA RAPIDS devcontainer build utilities",
   "id": "rapids-build-utils",
-  "version": "25.2.7",
+  "version": "25.2.8",
   "description": "A feature to install the RAPIDS devcontainer build utilities",
   "containerEnv": {
     "BASH_ENV": "/etc/bash.bash_env"
diff --git a/features/src/rapids-build-utils/opt/rapids-build-utils/manifest.yaml b/features/src/rapids-build-utils/opt/rapids-build-utils/manifest.yaml
index 821fcbf2..a259304c 100755
--- a/features/src/rapids-build-utils/opt/rapids-build-utils/manifest.yaml
+++ b/features/src/rapids-build-utils/opt/rapids-build-utils/manifest.yaml
@@ -159,10 +159,14 @@ repos:
       parallelism:
         max_device_obj_memory_usage: 3Gi
   python:
+    - name: libcuml
+      sub_dir: python/libcuml
+      depends: [cuml]
+      args: {install: *rapids_build_backend_args}
     - name: cuml
       sub_dir: python/cuml
       depends: [cuml]
-      args: {cmake: -DFIND_CUML_CPP=ON, install: *rapids_build_backend_args}
+      args: {install: *rapids_build_backend_args}
 
 - name: cugraph
   path: cugraph