diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 49a6504908..2b3e37f697 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ docker-publish-knora-jena-fuseki-image: # publish knora-jena-fuseki image to Doc
 
 .PHONY: docker-build-knora-sipi-image
 docker-build-knora-sipi-image: # build and publish knora-sipi docker image locally
-	@bazel run //docker/knora-sipi:image
+	@bazel run --action_env=PULLER_TIMEOUT=2400 //docker/knora-sipi:image
 
 .PHONY: docker-publish-knora-sipi-image
 docker-publish-knora-sipi-image: # publish knora-sipi image to Dockerhub
diff --git a/third_party/versions.bzl b/third_party/versions.bzl
index aafebb6335..7bb46db8d8 100644
--- a/third_party/versions.bzl
+++ b/third_party/versions.bzl
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ METRICS_VERSION = "4.0.1"
 
 # SIPI - digest takes precedence!
 SIPI_REPOSITORY = "daschswiss/sipi"
-SIPI_VERSION = "3.0.0-rc.7"
+SIPI_VERSION = "3.0.0-rc.8"
 SIPI_TAG = "v" + SIPI_VERSION
 SIPI_IMAGE = SIPI_REPOSITORY + ":" + SIPI_VERSION
-SIPI_IMAGE_DIGEST = "sha256:0ae1ca94148c2f159a03390718703625d5262b2c7097baf20579dfceb934f090"
+SIPI_IMAGE_DIGEST = "sha256:dce8f37fa9cf758955fb8a40b5341e55edb4ae356349af447e0622299c3f687a"
 
 # Jena Fuseki - digest takes precedence!
 FUSEKI_REPOSITORY = "daschswiss/apache-jena-fuseki"