diff --git a/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/Dockerfile b/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/Dockerfile
index 95eec9bf..c0937633 100644
--- a/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/Dockerfile
+++ b/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/Dockerfile
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ RUN mkdir -p ${CONDA_DIR} \
  && chown -R ${NB_USER}:users ${CONDA_DIR} \
  && chown -R ${NB_USER}:users ${HOME}
 
-USER $NB_UID
+# switch to NB_UID for installs
+USER ${NB_UID}
 
 # install - conda, pip, python
 RUN curl -sL "https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/download/${MINIFORGE_VERSION}/Miniforge3-${MINIFORGE_VERSION}-Linux-${MINIFORGE_ARCH}.sh" -o /tmp/Miniforge3.sh \
diff --git a/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/requirements.txt b/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/requirements.txt
index a00d9a61..8b797600 100644
--- a/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/requirements.txt
+++ b/components/example-notebook-servers/jupyter/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-notebook==6.2.0
 jupyterlab==3.0.12
+notebook==6.3.0