diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 492171c84a..6114b8d306 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 # UNRELEASED
 
+### fix: `dfx new` projects install again
+
+`vite-plugin-environment` 1.1.4 raised its peer dependency to `vite >= 8.0`, which no longer
+resolves against the `vite` version the frontend templates use, so `npm install` failed in a
+newly created project. The templates now ask for exactly 1.1.3.
+
 ### chore: bump `ic-agent`, `ic-identity-hsm`, `ic-utils` and `ic-transport-types` to 0.47.3
 
 # 0.32.0
diff --git a/e2e/tests-dfx/playground.bash b/e2e/tests-dfx/playground.bash
index 681f509708..8839d8eaf7 100644
--- a/e2e/tests-dfx/playground.bash
+++ b/e2e/tests-dfx/playground.bash
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ load ../utils/_
 
 setup_file() {
   if ! command -v ic-mops &> /dev/null; then
-    npm i -g ic-mops
+    # Pinned: ic-mops 3.0.0 removed `mops toolchain init`, which setup_playground uses.
+    npm i -g ic-mops@2.24.0
   fi
 }
 
diff --git a/scripts/workflows/provision-linux.sh b/scripts/workflows/provision-linux.sh
index 4c68d25e9d..f928465308 100755
--- a/scripts/workflows/provision-linux.sh
+++ b/scripts/workflows/provision-linux.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if [ "$E2E_TEST" = "tests-dfx/bitcoin.bash" ]; then
 
     (
         cd "$(mktemp -d)"
-        wget "https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-$BITCOIN_CORE_VERSION/$BITCOIN_CORE_FILENAME"
+        wget "https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-$BITCOIN_CORE_VERSION/$BITCOIN_CORE_FILENAME"
         echo "$BITCOIN_CORE_TARBALL_SHA  $BITCOIN_CORE_FILENAME" | shasum -c
         tar xzf "$BITCOIN_CORE_FILENAME"
         cd "bitcoin-$BITCOIN_CORE_VERSION/bin"
diff --git a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/react/src/__frontend_name__/package.json b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/react/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
index b7ad0fdcec..5ca26934e3 100644
--- a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/react/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
+++ b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/react/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@
     "sass": "^1.63.6",
     "typescript": "^5.1.3",
     "vite": "^4.3.9",
-    "vite-plugin-environment": "^1.1.3"
+    "vite-plugin-environment": "1.1.3"
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/svelte/src/__frontend_name__/package.json b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/svelte/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
index 7b33a99717..f63670513c 100644
--- a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/svelte/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
+++ b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/svelte/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@
     "svelte-check": "^4.3.2",
     "typescript": "^5.6.2",
     "vite": "^5.4.3",
-    "vite-plugin-environment": "^1.1.3"
+    "vite-plugin-environment": "1.1.3"
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vanilla_js/src/__frontend_name__/package.json b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vanilla_js/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
index 6a89fe6c29..68240fbc84 100644
--- a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vanilla_js/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
+++ b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vanilla_js/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     "sass": "^1.63.6",
     "typescript": "^5.1.3",
     "vite": "^4.3.9",
-    "vite-plugin-environment": "^1.1.3",
+    "vite-plugin-environment": "1.1.3",
     "vitest": "^2.0.5"
   },
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vue/src/__frontend_name__/package.json b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vue/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
index 1f738e6dd5..9772e50c88 100644
--- a/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vue/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
+++ b/src/dfx/assets/project_templates/vue/src/__frontend_name__/package.json
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     "sass": "^1.63.6",
     "typescript": "^5.1.3",
     "vite": "^4.3.9",
-    "vite-plugin-environment": "^1.1.3"
+    "vite-plugin-environment": "1.1.3"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "pinia": "^2.1.6",