diff --git a/versions.yaml b/versions.yaml
index 95e9e1b40e..ec9d5cb86a 100644
--- a/versions.yaml
+++ b/versions.yaml
@@ -193,9 +193,9 @@ externals:
     # containerd from v1.5.0 used the path unix socket
     # instead of abstract socket, thus kata wouldn's support the containerd's
     # version older than them.
-    version: "v1.5.2"
+    version: "v1.6.0-beta.2"
     # CCv0 needs to build a branch from our fork to install containerd
-    branch: "current-CCv0"
+    branch: "ali-CCv0"
 
   critools:
     description: "CLI tool for Container Runtime Interface (CRI)"