diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index cf808d1..4257ad4 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.12-slim
+FROM python:3.13-slim
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
diff --git a/cloudquery/sdk/serve/plugin.py b/cloudquery/sdk/serve/plugin.py
index 18f2128..7ea4e88 100644
--- a/cloudquery/sdk/serve/plugin.py
+++ b/cloudquery/sdk/serve/plugin.py
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ def run_docker_cmd(cmd, plugin_dir):
                 err = (
                     ""
                     if result.stderr is None
-                    else result.stderr.decode("ascii").strip()
+                    else result.stderr.decode("utf-8").strip()
                 )
                 raise ChildProcessError("Unable to run Docker command: %s" % err)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b93f837..61165c8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     "pandas==2.2.3",
     "pluggy==1.5.0",
     "protobuf==5.28.3",
-    "pyarrow==17.0.0",
+    "pyarrow==18.0.0",
     "pytest==8.3.3",
     "python-dateutil>=2.8.1",
     "pytz==2024.2",