diff --git a/docker/consistency.dockerfile b/docker/consistency.dockerfile
index e516898ded9a0f..c9200799ae1ae4 100644
--- a/docker/consistency.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/consistency.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 USER root
 ARG REF=main
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y time git pkg-config make git-lfs
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools GitPython
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools GitPython
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade 'torch' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir tensorflow-cpu tf-keras
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[flax,quality,vision,testing]" 
diff --git a/docker/custom-tokenizers.dockerfile b/docker/custom-tokenizers.dockerfile
index b65fc577748b22..5d95e689654ad6 100644
--- a/docker/custom-tokenizers.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/custom-tokenizers.dockerfile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ FROM python:3.10-slim
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git cmake wget xz-utils build-essential g++5 libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 
 RUN wget https://github.com/ku-nlp/jumanpp/releases/download/v2.0.0-rc3/jumanpp-2.0.0-rc3.tar.xz
 RUN tar xvf jumanpp-2.0.0-rc3.tar.xz
diff --git a/docker/examples-tf.dockerfile b/docker/examples-tf.dockerfile
index 2f719c2faa1312..9281630d3af2c9 100644
--- a/docker/examples-tf.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/examples-tf.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git
 RUN apt-get install -y g++ cmake
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools albumentations seqeval
 RUN pip install  --upgrade --no-cache-dir "transformers[tf-cpu,sklearn,testing,sentencepiece,tf-speech,vision]"
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir  "protobuf==3.20.3" 
diff --git a/docker/examples-torch.dockerfile b/docker/examples-torch.dockerfile
index fd50e8f4e13ed8..da9afcb801da11 100644
--- a/docker/examples-torch.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/examples-torch.dockerfile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ FROM python:3.10-slim
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ cmake pkg-config openssh-client git
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchvision' 'torchaudio' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps timm accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu 
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir librosa "transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing]" seqeval albumentations jiwer
diff --git a/docker/exotic-models.dockerfile b/docker/exotic-models.dockerfile
index 248f05e91cbe45..2371ffb91c97ce 100644
--- a/docker/exotic-models.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/exotic-models.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1 g++ tesseract-ocr
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 &&  uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv &&  uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchvision' 'torchaudio' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir  --no-deps timm accelerate
 RUN pip install -U --upgrade-strategy eager --no-cache-dir pytesseract python-Levenshtein opencv-python nltk
diff --git a/docker/jax-light.dockerfile b/docker/jax-light.dockerfile
index 7f8f1e536e2e70..315b526a7144d3 100644
--- a/docker/jax-light.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/jax-light.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ cmake
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 &&  uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv &&  uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir "scipy<1.13" "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[flax,testing,sentencepiece,flax-speech,vision]"
 RUN pip uninstall -y transformers
 RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/pipeline-tf.dockerfile b/docker/pipeline-tf.dockerfile
index d2de44b4d7febd..393738ff87ff17 100644
--- a/docker/pipeline-tf.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/pipeline-tf.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git cmake g++
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[sklearn,tf-cpu,testing,sentencepiece,tf-speech,vision]"
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir  "protobuf==3.20.3" tensorflow_probability
 RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/pipeline-torch.dockerfile b/docker/pipeline-torch.dockerfile
index 881633884536a7..992891a54a417c 100644
--- a/docker/pipeline-torch.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/pipeline-torch.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git pkg-config openssh-client git
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchvision' 'torchaudio' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps timm accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu 
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir librosa "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing]"
diff --git a/docker/quality.dockerfile b/docker/quality.dockerfile
index 44fbcd91f031eb..7a4145517a7666 100644
--- a/docker/quality.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/quality.dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y time git 
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip install uv==0.1.45 &&  uv venv
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip install uv &&  uv venv
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools GitPython "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[ruff]" urllib3
 RUN apt-get install -y jq curl && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/tf-light.dockerfile b/docker/tf-light.dockerfile
index 65e6660787f8cc..7168ddae1227cf 100644
--- a/docker/tf-light.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/tf-light.dockerfile
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ pkg-config openssh-client git
 RUN apt-get install -y  cmake
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install  --upgrade --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[tf-cpu,sklearn,testing,sentencepiece,tf-speech,vision]"
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir  "protobuf==3.20.3" 
 RUN pip uninstall -y transformers
diff --git a/docker/torch-jax-light.dockerfile b/docker/torch-jax-light.dockerfile
index 351eee27756ff0..7cfa141732fefd 100644
--- a/docker/torch-jax-light.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/torch-jax-light.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ cmake pkg-config openssh-client git
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps accelerate
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchvision' 'torchaudio' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir "scipy<1.13" "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[flax,audio,sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing]"
diff --git a/docker/torch-light.dockerfile b/docker/torch-light.dockerfile
index ad571f79d70b4a..524a68fd55407f 100644
--- a/docker/torch-light.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/torch-light.dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ARG REF=main
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ cmake pkg-config openssh-client git git-lfs
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchvision' 'torchaudio' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps timm accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu 
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir librosa "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing]"
diff --git a/docker/torch-tf-light.dockerfile b/docker/torch-tf-light.dockerfile
index 56655914d26159..ac35b6be81f872 100644
--- a/docker/torch-tf-light.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/torch-tf-light.dockerfile
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ ARG REF=main
 RUN echo ${REF}
 USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ cmake pkg-config openssh-client git git-lfs
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv==0.1.45 && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
+ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
+RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir  --no-deps accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu 
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchvision' 'torchaudio' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN git lfs install