diff --git a/docling-serve/docling-serve-client/src/test/java/ai/docling/serve/client/AbstractDoclingServeClientTests.java b/docling-serve/docling-serve-client/src/test/java/ai/docling/serve/client/AbstractDoclingServeClientTests.java
index 030aff33..b5b690a1 100644
--- a/docling-serve/docling-serve-client/src/test/java/ai/docling/serve/client/AbstractDoclingServeClientTests.java
+++ b/docling-serve/docling-serve-client/src/test/java/ai/docling/serve/client/AbstractDoclingServeClientTests.java
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 import java.util.TreeSet;
 import java.util.concurrent.Flow.Subscriber;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
 import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
 
@@ -102,6 +103,13 @@
 abstract class AbstractDoclingServeClientTests {
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AbstractDoclingServeClientTests.class);
 
+  // docling-serve names extracted images after a hash of their content, which changes whenever the
+  // rendered image bytes do (e.g. across docling-serve versions), so ZIP entry names are compared
+  // with the hash replaced by a placeholder.
+  private static final String IMAGE_HASH_PLACEHOLDER = "<hash>";
+  private static final Pattern IMAGE_ARTIFACT_HASH = Pattern.compile("(?<=^artifacts/image_\\d{6}_)[0-9a-f]{64}(?=\\.png$)");
+  private static final String FIRST_IMAGE_ARTIFACT_ENTRY = "artifacts/image_000000_%s.png".formatted(IMAGE_HASH_PLACEHOLDER);
+
   protected static final DoclingServeContainer doclingContainer = new DoclingServeContainer(
       DoclingServeContainerConfig.builder()
           .image(DoclingServeContainerConfig.DOCLING_IMAGE)
@@ -462,7 +470,10 @@ static void assertZipArchiveEntries(InputStream inputStream, Set<String> expecte
       try (ZipInputStream zipInputStream = new ZipInputStream(inputStream)) {
         ZipEntry entry;
         while ((entry = zipInputStream.getNextEntry()) != null) {
-          actualEntries.add(entry.getName());
+          var normalizedName = IMAGE_ARTIFACT_HASH
+              .matcher(entry.getName())
+              .replaceFirst(IMAGE_HASH_PLACEHOLDER);
+          actualEntries.add(normalizedName);
           LOG.info("Found entry in ZIP: {} (size: {} bytes)", entry.getName(), entry.getSize());
           zipInputStream.closeEntry();
         }
@@ -1004,7 +1015,7 @@ void shouldConvertSingleFileSourceWithZipTargetAndReferencedImageExportModeAsync
       assertThat(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getFileName()).isEqualTo("converted_docs.zip");
       assertThat(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getInputStream()).isNotNull();
       assertZipArchiveEntries(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getInputStream(), Set
-          .of("2408.09869.md", "artifacts/", "artifacts/image_000000_4f05ea6de89ce20493a5d9cc2305a4feb948c7bb794d7b81ee29554ec56b8445.png"));
+          .of("2408.09869.md", "artifacts/", FIRST_IMAGE_ARTIFACT_ENTRY));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -1058,7 +1069,7 @@ void shouldConvertMultipleFileSourcesWithReferencedImageExportModeAsync() {
       assertThat(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getFileName()).isEqualTo("converted_docs.zip");
       assertThat(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getInputStream()).isNotNull();
       assertZipArchiveEntries(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getInputStream(), Set
-          .of("2408.09869.md", "story.md", "artifacts/", "artifacts/image_000000_4f05ea6de89ce20493a5d9cc2305a4feb948c7bb794d7b81ee29554ec56b8445.png"));
+          .of("2408.09869.md", "story.md", "artifacts/", FIRST_IMAGE_ARTIFACT_ENTRY));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -1114,7 +1125,7 @@ void shouldConvertMultipleFileSourcesWithInBodyTargetAndReferencedImageExportMod
       assertThat(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getFileName()).isEqualTo("converted_docs.zip");
       assertThat(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getInputStream()).isNotNull();
       assertZipArchiveEntries(((ZipArchiveConvertDocumentResponse) response).getInputStream(), Set
-          .of("2408.09869.md", "story.md", "artifacts/", "artifacts/image_000000_4f05ea6de89ce20493a5d9cc2305a4feb948c7bb794d7b81ee29554ec56b8445.png"));
+          .of("2408.09869.md", "story.md", "artifacts/", FIRST_IMAGE_ARTIFACT_ENTRY));
     }
 
     @Test
diff --git a/docling-testcontainers/src/main/java/ai/docling/testcontainers/serve/config/DoclingServeContainerConfig.java b/docling-testcontainers/src/main/java/ai/docling/testcontainers/serve/config/DoclingServeContainerConfig.java
index ac307c35..0c13d8ed 100644
--- a/docling-testcontainers/src/main/java/ai/docling/testcontainers/serve/config/DoclingServeContainerConfig.java
+++ b/docling-testcontainers/src/main/java/ai/docling/testcontainers/serve/config/DoclingServeContainerConfig.java
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public interface DoclingServeContainerConfig {
   /**
    * Represents the version identifier for the docling-serve container image.
    */
-  String DOCLING_IMAGE_VERSION = "v1.29.0";
+  String DOCLING_IMAGE_VERSION = "v1.35.0";
 
   /**
    * Default image name