diff --git a/mypy-requirements.txt b/mypy-requirements.txt
index b272f1129..060e84e7a 100644
--- a/mypy-requirements.txt
+++ b/mypy-requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-mypy==1.7.1  # also update pyproject.toml
+mypy==1.8.0  # also update pyproject.toml
 ruamel.yaml>=0.16.0,<0.19
 cwl-utils>=0.32
 types-requests
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1f7f3a5ec..0c427a7f7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 requires = [
     "setuptools>=45",
     "setuptools_scm[toml]>=8.0.4,<9",
-    "mypy==1.7.1",  # also update mypy-requirements.txt
+    "mypy==1.8.0",  # also update mypy-requirements.txt
     "types-requests",
     "types-psutil",
     "importlib_resources>=1.4;python_version<'3.9'",
diff --git a/tests/test_udocker.py b/tests/test_udocker.py
index eb9a0ebfe..63ad97191 100644
--- a/tests/test_udocker.py
+++ b/tests/test_udocker.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from .util import get_data, get_main_output, working_directory
 
 LINUX = sys.platform in ("linux", "linux2")
+UDOCKER_VERSION = "1.3.12"
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
@@ -19,10 +20,13 @@ def udocker(tmp_path_factory: TempPathFactory) -> str:
     test_environ = copy.copy(os.environ)
     docker_install_dir = str(tmp_path_factory.mktemp("udocker"))
     with working_directory(docker_install_dir):
-        url = "https://github.com/indigo-dc/udocker/releases/download/1.3.5/udocker-1.3.5.tar.gz"
+        url = (
+            "https://github.com/indigo-dc/udocker/releases/download/"
+            f"{UDOCKER_VERSION}/udocker-{UDOCKER_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+        )
         install_cmds = [
             ["curl", "-L", url, "-o", "./udocker-tarball.tgz"],
-            ["tar", "xzvf", "udocker-tarball.tgz"],
+            ["tar", "--strip-components=1", "-xzvf", "udocker-tarball.tgz"],
             ["./udocker/udocker", "install"],
         ]