diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 64a2aacefd6..39e91d9ebc8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ test_hlk_args_init_gen
 tt_build
 tt_debug
 build
-python_env/
+/python_env/
 
 /llk_out/
 /out/
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 86b359c2955..da3acb9ba46 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "toolz==0.12.0",
   "matplotlib==3.7.1",
   "Pillow==10.3.0",
-  "jupyterlab==4.0.11",
+  "jupyterlab==4.2.1",
   "ipywidgets==8.1.1",
 
   # extra index required https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
diff --git a/tt_metal/python_env/requirements-dev.txt b/tt_metal/python_env/requirements-dev.txt
index 29a2a417d42..6ed539cee08 100644
--- a/tt_metal/python_env/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/tt_metal/python_env/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ mypy==1.9.0
 pytest==7.2.2
 pytest-timeout==2.2.0
 pytest-split==0.8.2
-jupyterlab==4.2.1
 jsbeautifier==1.14.7
 datasets==2.9.0
 torch==2.2.1.0+cpu