diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2186aa4..32cd6cc 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 # Official language image. Look for the different tagged releases at:
 # https://hub.docker.com/r/library/python/tags/
-image: python:3.11.4-alpine3.18
+image: python:3.11.4-alpine3.17
 
 # Change pip's cache directory to be inside the project directory since we can
 # only cache local items.
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ stages:
 
 .before_script_template: &test
   before_script:
-    - apk update && apk add py3-virtualenv py3-pip
+    - apk update && apk add py3-virtualenv py3-pip py3-exceptiongroup
     - python3 -V  # Print out python version for debugging
     - pip3 install pipenv
     - pipenv install  --dev
 
 test:
-  image: python:${PYVERSION}-alpine3.18
+  image: python:${PYVERSION}-alpine3.17
   stage: test
   <<: *test
   parallel: