diff --git a/dataflow/snippets/Dockerfile b/dataflow/snippets/Dockerfile
index ebe0d2b6d908..4e022e0dce15 100644
--- a/dataflow/snippets/Dockerfile
+++ b/dataflow/snippets/Dockerfile
@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ COPY --from=apache/beam_python3.11_sdk:2.62.0 /opt/apache/beam /opt/apache/beam
 ENTRYPOINT [ "/opt/apache/beam/boot" ]
 
 COPY requirements.txt .
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-        curl python3-distutils default-jre docker.io \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-    && update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 10 \
-    && curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python \
+RUN apt-get update 
+RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        curl python3-distutils default-jre docker.io 
+RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 
+RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 10 
+RUN curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python 
     # Install the requirements.
-    && pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt \
-    && pip check
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt 
+RUN pip check
 
 
 COPY read_kafka.py ./
diff --git a/dataflow/snippets/noxfile_config.py b/dataflow/snippets/noxfile_config.py
index dd0def22c9e0..1798bbee4f8d 100644
--- a/dataflow/snippets/noxfile_config.py
+++ b/dataflow/snippets/noxfile_config.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 TEST_CONFIG_OVERRIDE = {
     # You can opt out from the test for specific Python versions.
-    "ignored_versions": ["2.7", "3.7", "3.9", "3.10", "3.12", "3.13"],
+    "ignored_versions": ["2.7", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.12", "3.13"],
     # Old samples are opted out of enforcing Python type hints
     # All new samples should feature them
     "enforce_type_hints": True,
diff --git a/dataflow/snippets/requirements.txt b/dataflow/snippets/requirements.txt
index b83913587115..0f0d8796fa20 100644
--- a/dataflow/snippets/requirements.txt
+++ b/dataflow/snippets/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-apache-beam[gcp]==2.58.0
-kafka-python==2.0.2
+apache-beam[gcp]==2.63.0
+kafka-python==2.0.6