diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/package.json b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/package.json
index 33a3b073a..fa51286e0 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "create-itk-wasm",
-  "version": "2.1.1",
+  "version": "2.1.3",
   "description": "CLI to create a new ITK-Wasm project or add a pipeline to an existing project.",
   "type": "module",
   "exports": {
diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/itk-wasm-env-bash.ts b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/itk-wasm-env-bash.ts
index 173a73189..cb555f96e 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/itk-wasm-env-bash.ts
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/itk-wasm-env-bash.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export ITK_WASM_TEST_DATA_HASH=\${ITK_WASM_TEST_DATA_HASH:-$(cat package.json |
 export ITK_WASM_TEST_DATA_URLS=\${ITK_WASM_TEST_DATA_URLS:-$(cat package.json | jq -e -r '."itk-wasm"."test-data-urls" | join(" ")')}
 
 export ITK_WASM_ITK_REPOSITORY=\${ITK_WASM_ITK_REPOSITORY:-"https://github.com/thewtex/ITK"}
-export ITK_WASM_ITK_BRANCH=\${ITK_WASM_ITK_BRANCH:-"itkwasm-2024-05-20-5db055d7ad3b-4"}
+export ITK_WASM_ITK_BRANCH=\${ITK_WASM_ITK_BRANCH:-"itkwasm-2025-03-19-25d3162371"}
 
 export ITK_WASM_NATIVE_WORKSPACE=\${ITK_WASM_NATIVE_WORKSPACE:-$(pwd)/native}
 
diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/package-json.ts b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/package-json.ts
index 8a1fd5349..4ea00d047 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/package-json.ts
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/package-json.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ function generatePackageJson(project: ProjectSpec) {
     },
     devDependencies: {
       '@itk-wasm/dam': '^1.1.1',
-      'itk-wasm': '1.0.0-b.188'
+      'itk-wasm': '1.0.0-b.196'
     }
   }
   if (project.author) {
diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/pixi-toml.ts b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/pixi-toml.ts
index 708d9e032..59407730c 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/pixi-toml.ts
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/create-itk-wasm/src/generate/pixi-toml.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ python = ["python"]
 
 [dependencies]
 python = "3.12.*"
-pnpm = ">=10.12.1,<11"
+pnpm = ">=10.14.0,<11"
 hatch = ">=1.13.0,<2"
 pip = ">=24.2,<25"
 
diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/package.json b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/package.json
index 248dfcb7c..627d04939 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "itk-wasm",
-  "version": "1.0.0-b.195",
+  "version": "1.0.0-b.196",
   "description": "High-performance spatial analysis in a web browser, Node.js, and reproducible execution across programming languages and hardware architectures.",
   "type": "module",
   "module": "./dist/index.js",
diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/bindgen/typescript/resources/template.package.json b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/bindgen/typescript/resources/template.package.json
index 2fccf3c01..272559834 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/bindgen/typescript/resources/template.package.json
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/bindgen/typescript/resources/template.package.json
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
   "author": "",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "dependencies": {
-    "itk-wasm": "1.0.0-b.195"
+    "itk-wasm": "1.0.0-b.196"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@itk-wasm/demo-app": "^0.2.0",
diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/cli/default-image-tag.js b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/cli/default-image-tag.js
index 3ac0a022f..c4bc08afa 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/cli/default-image-tag.js
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/cli/default-image-tag.js
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-const defaultImageTag = '20250619-3165ade4'
+const defaultImageTag = '20250813-cd217d20'
 export default defaultImageTag
diff --git a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/version.ts b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/version.ts
index fd2475956..541273a29 100644
--- a/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/version.ts
+++ b/packages/core/typescript/itk-wasm/src/version.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-const version = '1.0.0-b.195'
+const version = '1.0.0-b.196'
 
 export default version
diff --git a/src/docker/RELEASE.md b/src/docker/RELEASE.md
index ffdc6879d..7bc242f8d 100644
--- a/src/docker/RELEASE.md
+++ b/src/docker/RELEASE.md
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ Verify the source tree.
 
 ```
 
-# on an amd64 system
+# on an arm64 system
 # DockerHub, quay.io login required
 pixi run build-docker-images --with-debug
 ./src/docker/push.sh
 
-# on a linux arm64 system
+# on a linux amd64 system
 export OCI_EXE=docker
 pixi run build-docker-images --with-debug
 # requires manifest-tool, see https://github.com/estesp/manifest-tool/releases/
diff --git a/src/docker/itk-wasm-base/Dockerfile b/src/docker/itk-wasm-base/Dockerfile
index 663cc002f..c212c7592 100644
--- a/src/docker/itk-wasm-base/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/docker/itk-wasm-base/Dockerfile
@@ -98,10 +98,11 @@ RUN mkdir ITK-build && \
   find . -name '*.o' -delete && \
   cd .. && chmod -R 777 ITK-build
 
-ENV ITKMeshToPolyData_GIT_TAG=1e594b7437a43be348b0ccea827c66fb5aa13e1f
+ENV ITKMeshToPolyData_GIT_TAG=45454052790b9f01bc1e1baf0e9400f68a3f1363
 RUN git clone https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKMeshToPolyData.git && \
   cd ITKMeshToPolyData && \
   git checkout ${ITKMeshToPolyData_GIT_TAG} && \
+  echo "" > wasm/CMakeLists.txt && \
   cd / && \
   mkdir ITKMeshToPolyData-build && \
   cd ITKMeshToPolyData-build && \