diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.tbprofiler-0.9.8 b/docker/Dockerfile.tbprofiler-0.9.8
index 468d706..bcbffad 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.tbprofiler-0.9.8
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.tbprofiler-0.9.8
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ WORKDIR /
 
 ARG TBPROFILER_VER="5.0.1"
 
+
 # this version is the shortened commit hash on the `master` branch here https://github.com/jodyphelan/tbdb/
 # commits are found on https://github.com/jodyphelan/tbdb/commits/master
 # this was the latest commit as of 2023-10-26
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.vcfpredict-0.9.8 b/docker/Dockerfile.vcfpredict-0.9.8
index 068303f..ca94910 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.vcfpredict-0.9.8
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.vcfpredict-0.9.8
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ PYTHON="python3 python3-pip python3-dev"
 
 ENV vcfmix_version=d4693344bf612780723e39ce27c8ae3868f95417 \
 
+#apt updates
 RUN apt-get update \
 && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive TZ=Etc/UTC apt-get -y install tzdata \
 && apt-get install -y $PACKAGES $PYTHON \