diff --git a/src/universal/.devcontainer/devcontainer-lock.json b/src/universal/.devcontainer/devcontainer-lock.json
index c678e53d7..2d0f6cdef 100644
--- a/src/universal/.devcontainer/devcontainer-lock.json
+++ b/src/universal/.devcontainer/devcontainer-lock.json
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
       "integrity": "sha256:9ddad2e4f71f172cc0bf28461e70948218f70f8ad6cd936b5c8dbe0a8acf6b45"
     },
     "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/conda:1": {
-      "version": "1.0.10",
-      "resolved": "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/conda@sha256:84207a9933d7739cb99731ab671eda3f07200ce1fb3dfdc261dc565dd68d168c",
-      "integrity": "sha256:84207a9933d7739cb99731ab671eda3f07200ce1fb3dfdc261dc565dd68d168c"
+      "version": "1.2.5",
+      "resolved": "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/conda@sha256:d189cf17997854b28c7ffbab5db70f9b7d70332d97dfbf44447e48e958a03c8b",
+      "integrity": "sha256:d189cf17997854b28c7ffbab5db70f9b7d70332d97dfbf44447e48e958a03c8b"
     },
     "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/copilot-cli:1": {
       "version": "1.0.0",
diff --git a/src/universal/test-project/test.sh b/src/universal/test-project/test.sh
index 87fc36b2a..1e58c6b6c 100755
--- a/src/universal/test-project/test.sh
+++ b/src/universal/test-project/test.sh
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ checkPythonPackageVersion "python" "requests" "2.31.0"
 
 ## Python -alternative version 3.11. Must be removed when pinned version 3.11 is updated to a different python version.
 checkPythonPackageVersion "/usr/local/python/3.11.*/bin/python" "setuptools" "78.1.1"
-check "pip-version-for-3.11" bash -c "/usr/local/python/3.11.*/bin/python -m pip --version | grep 25.3"
+pip_version_3_11=$(/usr/local/python/3.11.*/bin/python -m pip --version)
+check-version-ge "pip-version-for-3.11" "${pip_version_3_11}" "pip 25.3"
 
 ## Conda Python
 checkCondaPackageVersion "requests" "2.31.0"
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ checkCondaPackageVersion "urllib3" "2.6.3"
 checkCondaPackageVersion "brotli" "1.2.0"
 
 ## Test Conda
-check "conda-update-conda" bash -c "conda update -y conda"
+check "conda-update-conda" bash -c "conda update -c defaults -y conda"
 check "conda-install-tensorflow" bash -c "conda create --name test-env -c conda-forge --yes tensorflow"
 check "conda-install-pytorch" bash -c "conda create --name test-env -c conda-forge --yes pytorch"