diff --git a/packages/verified-fetch/package.json b/packages/verified-fetch/package.json
index 32a55e58..2dd4452b 100644
--- a/packages/verified-fetch/package.json
+++ b/packages/verified-fetch/package.json
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
     "@helia/interface": "^5.3.1",
     "@helia/ipns": "^8.2.2",
     "@helia/routers": "^3.1.1",
-    "@helia/unixfs": "^5.0.2",
+    "@helia/unixfs": "^5.1.0",
     "@ipld/car": "^5.4.2",
     "@ipld/dag-cbor": "^9.2.3",
     "@ipld/dag-json": "^10.2.4",
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
     "helia": "^5.4.1",
     "interface-blockstore": "^5.3.1",
     "interface-datastore": "^8.3.1",
-    "ipfs-unixfs-exporter": "^13.6.2",
+    "ipfs-unixfs-exporter": "^13.7.2",
     "ipns": "^10.0.2",
     "it-map": "^3.1.3",
     "it-pipe": "^3.0.1",
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
     "browser-readablestream-to-it": "^2.0.9",
     "datastore-core": "^10.0.2",
     "helia": "^5.4.1",
-    "ipfs-unixfs-importer": "^15.3.2",
+    "ipfs-unixfs-importer": "^15.4.0",
     "it-all": "^3.0.8",
     "it-last": "^3.0.8",
     "it-to-buffer": "^4.0.9",
diff --git a/packages/verified-fetch/src/plugins/plugin-handle-dag-pb.ts b/packages/verified-fetch/src/plugins/plugin-handle-dag-pb.ts
index 66453ae4..e1e172a7 100644
--- a/packages/verified-fetch/src/plugins/plugin-handle-dag-pb.ts
+++ b/packages/verified-fetch/src/plugins/plugin-handle-dag-pb.ts
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ export class DagPbPlugin extends BasePlugin {
         context.modified++
         this.log.trace('attempting to get directory entries because index.html was not found')
         try {
-          for await (const dirItem of fs.ls(dirCid, { signal: options?.signal, onProgress: options?.onProgress })) {
+          for await (const dirItem of fs.ls(dirCid, { signal: options?.signal, onProgress: options?.onProgress, extended: false })) {
             context.directoryEntries.push(dirItem)
           }
           // dir-index-html plugin or dir-index-json (future idea?) plugin should handle this
diff --git a/packages/verified-fetch/src/utils/dir-index-html.ts b/packages/verified-fetch/src/utils/dir-index-html.ts
index 0800250d..48f60d73 100644
--- a/packages/verified-fetch/src/utils/dir-index-html.ts
+++ b/packages/verified-fetch/src/utils/dir-index-html.ts
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ export const dirIndexHtml = (dir: UnixFSEntry, items: UnixFSEntry[], { gatewayUR
     },
     listing: items.map((item) => {
       return {
-        size: item.size.toString(),
+        size: item.size?.toString() ?? '?',
         name: item.name,
         path: getItemPath(item),
         hash: item.cid.toString(),