diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md
index 3b0ab860..64543208 100644
--- a/RELEASES.md
+++ b/RELEASES.md
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Use <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601> to express the current date and tim
 time offset for New York on standard time (EST). "−08:00" would be for California.
 
 ## Release Log
+* 2023-11-07T17:30:00-08:00 update nmdc-schema package from 8.0.0 to 8.1.2
+* (missing entries)
 * 2023-08-31T22:15:00-07:00 update nmdc-schema package from 7.7.2 to 7.8.0
 * 2023-01-27T13:13:09-05:00 return 201 on activity creation
 * 2023-01-25T13:13:09-05:00 all typecodes for minter
diff --git a/requirements/main.in b/requirements/main.in
index 46551ccd..1e2fe070 100644
--- a/requirements/main.in
+++ b/requirements/main.in
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ mkdocs-jupyter
 mkdocs-material
 mkdocs-mermaid2-plugin
 motor
-nmdc-schema==8.0.0
+nmdc-schema==8.1.2
 openpyxl
 pandas
 passlib[bcrypt]
diff --git a/requirements/main.txt b/requirements/main.txt
index 1ee0dc8b..2672f950 100644
--- a/requirements/main.txt
+++ b/requirements/main.txt
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ black==23.10.1
     # via shed
 bleach==6.1.0
     # via nbconvert
-boto3==1.28.77
+boto3==1.28.80
     # via -r requirements/main.in
-botocore==1.31.77
+botocore==1.31.80
     # via
     #   boto3
     #   s3transfer
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ coloredlogs==14.0
     # via dagster
 com2ann==0.3.0
     # via shed
-comm==0.1.4
+comm==0.2.0
     # via
     #   ipykernel
     #   ipywidgets
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ croniter==2.0.1
     # via dagster
 cryptography==41.0.5
     # via python-jose
-curies==0.7.0
+curies==0.7.2
     # via linkml-runtime
 dagit==1.5.6
     # via -r requirements/main.in
@@ -254,8 +254,6 @@ ipython==8.17.2
     #   ipykernel
     #   ipywidgets
     #   jupyter-console
-ipython-genutils==0.2.0
-    # via qtconsole
 ipywidgets==8.1.1
     # via jupyter
 isodate==0.6.1
@@ -287,7 +285,7 @@ jmespath==1.0.1
     #   botocore
 jq==1.6.0
     # via -r requirements/main.in
-jsbeautifier==1.14.9
+jsbeautifier==1.14.11
     # via mkdocs-mermaid2-plugin
 json-flattener==0.1.9
     # via linkml-runtime
@@ -322,7 +320,7 @@ jsonschema-specifications==2023.7.1
     # via jsonschema
 jupyter==1.0.0
     # via -r requirements/main.in
-jupyter-client==8.5.0
+jupyter-client==8.6.0
     # via
     #   ipykernel
     #   jupyter-console
@@ -342,11 +340,11 @@ jupyter-core==5.5.0
     #   nbconvert
     #   nbformat
     #   qtconsole
-jupyter-events==0.8.0
+jupyter-events==0.9.0
     # via jupyter-server
 jupyter-lsp==2.2.0
     # via jupyterlab
-jupyter-server==2.9.1
+jupyter-server==2.10.0
     # via
     #   jupyter-lsp
     #   jupyterlab
@@ -373,13 +371,13 @@ lazy-model==0.2.0
     # via beanie
 libcst==1.1.0
     # via shed
-linkml==1.6.1
+linkml==1.6.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements/main.in
     #   nmdc-schema
 linkml-dataops==0.1.0
     # via linkml
-linkml-runtime==1.6.0
+linkml-runtime==1.6.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/main.in
     #   linkml
@@ -421,7 +419,7 @@ mkdocs==1.5.3
     #   mkdocs-mermaid2-plugin
 mkdocs-jupyter==0.24.6
     # via -r requirements/main.in
-mkdocs-material==9.4.7
+mkdocs-material==9.4.8
     # via
     #   -r requirements/main.in
     #   mkdocs-jupyter
@@ -439,9 +437,9 @@ mypy-extensions==1.0.0
     # via
     #   black
     #   typing-inspect
-nbclient==0.8.0
+nbclient==0.9.0
     # via nbconvert
-nbconvert==7.10.0
+nbconvert==7.11.0
     # via
     #   jupyter
     #   jupyter-server
@@ -454,7 +452,7 @@ nbformat==5.9.2
     #   nbconvert
 nest-asyncio==1.5.8
     # via ipykernel
-nmdc-schema==8.0.0
+nmdc-schema==8.1.2
     # via -r requirements/main.in
 notebook==7.0.6
     # via jupyter
@@ -657,7 +655,7 @@ pyzmq==25.1.1
     #   jupyter-console
     #   jupyter-server
     #   qtconsole
-qtconsole==5.4.4
+qtconsole==5.5.0
     # via jupyter
 qtpy==2.4.1
     # via qtconsole
@@ -716,7 +714,7 @@ rfc3986-validator==0.1.1
     #   jupyter-events
 rfc3987==1.3.8
     # via jsonschema
-rpds-py==0.10.6
+rpds-py==0.12.0
     # via
     #   jsonschema
     #   referencing
@@ -899,7 +897,7 @@ urllib3==1.26.18
     #   pyshex
     #   requests
     #   requests-cache
-uvicorn==0.23.2
+uvicorn==0.24.0.post1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/main.in
     #   dagster-webserver