diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 4c89d64a..ce73ab6a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -247,10 +247,9 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked,id=apt-$TARGETARCH$T
 
 
 # Runtime config used by plugin hooks. Plugin binaries and npm packages are
-# installed into LIB_DIR below by archivebox init --install.
-ENV PATH="$LIB_DIR/bin:$LIB_DIR/env/bin:$LIB_DIR/pip/venv/bin:$LIB_DIR/npm/node_modules/.bin:$LIB_DIR/puppeteer/bin:$PATH" \
-    PERSONAS_DIR=/data/personas \
-    NODE_PATH="$LIB_DIR/npm/node_modules:/data/personas/Default/node_modules" \
+# installed into LIB_DIR below by archivebox init --install and resolved from
+# LIB_DIR by ArchiveBox/abxpkg, not by mutating the container PATH.
+ENV PERSONAS_DIR=/data/personas \
     CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR=/data/personas/Default/chrome_profile \
     CHROME_HEADLESS=true \
     CHROME_SANDBOX=false \
diff --git a/etc/package.json b/etc/package.json
index b1f06688..1bdd2c3a 100644
--- a/etc/package.json
+++ b/etc/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "archivebox",
-  "version": "0.9.31rc18",
+  "version": "0.9.31rc19",
   "repository": "github:ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox",
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c42c9623..95ba6314 100755
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "archivebox"
-version = "0.9.31rc18"
+version = "0.9.31rc19"
 requires-python = ">=3.13"
 description = "Self-hosted internet archiving solution."
 authors = [{name = "Nick Sweeting", email = "pyproject.toml@archivebox.io"}]
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ dependencies = [
     ### Extractor dependencies (optional binaries detected at runtime via shutil.which)
     ### Binary/Package Management
     "abxbus>=2.5.4",          # EventBus API
-    "abxpkg>=1.10.10",         # for: detecting, versioning, and installing binaries via apt/brew/pip/npm
-    "abx-plugins>=1.10.77",   # shared ArchiveBox plugin package with Chrome/Puppeteer dependency wiring
-    "abx-dl>=1.10.77",        # shared ArchiveBox downloader package with blocking install preflight
+    "abxpkg>=1.10.13",         # for: detecting, versioning, and installing binaries via apt/brew/pip/npm
+    "abx-plugins>=1.10.79",   # shared ArchiveBox plugin package with Chrome/Puppeteer dependency wiring
+    "abx-dl>=1.10.79",        # shared ArchiveBox downloader package with blocking install preflight
     ### UUID7 backport for Python <3.14
     "uuid7>=0.1.0; python_version < '3.14'",  # provides the uuid_extensions module on Python 3.13
 ]