diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index e6329fdb1..cc474432e 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ICP Examples (Motoko + Rust)",
-  "image": "ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-all:v2.0.0",
+  "image": "ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-all:v2.2.1",
   "forwardPorts": [8000, 5173],
   "portsAttributes": {
     "8000": {
diff --git a/.github/workflows/_run-example.yml b/.github/workflows/_run-example.yml
index 3e68d0c15..f43c8f660 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/_run-example.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_run-example.yml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   run:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    container: ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-${{ inputs.language }}:v2.0.0
+    container: ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-${{ inputs.language }}:v2.2.1
     env:
       ICP_CLI_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
@@ -60,17 +60,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: dfinity/pocketic@a980c334fab1b21b0b8a6bba38e1a10836e7258b # main
         with:
           pocket-ic-server-version: ${{ inputs.pocketic-version }}
-      # Projects with more than one Motoko canister run one `mops build` per canister
-      # concurrently, and those invocations race on the shared moc toolchain download and
-      # extraction: whichever build loses reads a half-extracted moc and fails with no
-      # diagnostics. Warming the cache first makes the download happen exactly once.
-      # Remove once caffeinelabs/mops#818 is fixed and released.
-      - name: Warm the mops toolchain cache
-        working-directory: ${{ inputs.working-directory }}
-        run: |
-          if [ -f mops.toml ] && command -v mops > /dev/null; then
-            mops install
-          fi
       - name: Run
         working-directory: ${{ inputs.working-directory }}
         run: ${{ inputs.run }}