diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d6eadc72dc36..d305a5b593b7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ This is a bug-fix release.
 
 ### Changed
 
-* Changed to use `Miniforge` installer in GutHub actions [#2057](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2057)
+* Changed to use `Miniforge` installer in GitHub actions [#2057](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2057)
 * Updated `README.md` to reflect current installation requirements and available options [#2166](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2166)
-* Corrected a list of owners and code maintainers [#2185](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2185)
+* Corrected the list of owners and code maintainers [#2185](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2185)
+* Bumped the version of `oneMKL` interface used in dpnp build by default to align it with `2025.0` oneAPI release [#2193](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2193)
 
 ### Fixed
 
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ This is a bug-fix release.
 * Fixed incorrect result produced by `dpnp.fft.fft` function when input array has negative strides [#2202](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2202)
 * Resolved a compilation error when building with DPC++ 2025.1 compiler [#2211](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2211)
 
+
 ## [0.16.0] - 10/14/2024
 
 This release reaches an important milestone by making offloading fully asynchronous. Calls to `dpnp` submit tasks for execution to DPC++ runtime and return without waiting for execution of these tasks to finish. The sequential semantics a user comes to expect from execution of Python script is preserved though.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8e2b260cb39d..a1cadf1cdf7b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -115,11 +115,17 @@ if(_use_onemkl_interfaces)
         set(ENABLE_MKLGPU_BACKEND False)
         set(ENABLE_MKLCPU_BACKEND False)
     endif()
-    FetchContent_Declare(
-            onemkl_interfaces_library
-            GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneMKL.git
-            GIT_TAG f2d2dcb4213a435bb60fbb88320c5f24892423ce
-    )
+
+    if(DPNP_ONEMKL_INTERFACES_DIR)
+        FetchContent_Declare(onemkl_interfaces_library SOURCE_DIR "${DPNP_ONEMKL_INTERFACES_DIR}")
+    else()
+        FetchContent_Declare(
+                onemkl_interfaces_library
+                GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneMKL.git
+                GIT_TAG 8f4312ef966420b9b8b4b82b9d5c22e2c91a1fe7  # v0.6
+        )
+    endif()
+
     FetchContent_MakeAvailable(onemkl_interfaces_library)
     set(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib")
 endif()
diff --git a/scripts/build_locally.py b/scripts/build_locally.py
index 0c0b29efd3bb..9ace383cfc19 100644
--- a/scripts/build_locally.py
+++ b/scripts/build_locally.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ def run(
     cmake_opts="",
     target="intel",
     onemkl_interfaces=False,
+    onemkl_interfaces_dir=None,
 ):
     build_system = None
 
@@ -108,6 +109,13 @@ def run(
             "-DDPNP_USE_ONEMKL_INTERFACES=ON",
         ]
 
+        if onemkl_interfaces_dir:
+            cmake_args += [
+                f"-DDPNP_ONEMKL_INTERFACES_DIR={onemkl_interfaces_dir}",
+            ]
+    elif onemkl_interfaces_dir:
+        RuntimeError("--onemkl-interfaces-dir option is not supported")
+
     subprocess.check_call(
         cmake_args, shell=False, cwd=setup_dir, env=os.environ
     )
@@ -175,6 +183,13 @@ def run(
         dest="onemkl_interfaces",
         action="store_true",
     )
+    driver.add_argument(
+        "--onemkl-interfaces-dir",
+        help="Local directory with source of oneMKL Interfaces",
+        dest="onemkl_interfaces_dir",
+        default=None,
+        type=str,
+    )
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     args_to_validate = [
@@ -230,4 +245,5 @@ def run(
         cmake_opts=args.cmake_opts,
         target=args.target,
         onemkl_interfaces=args.onemkl_interfaces,
+        onemkl_interfaces_dir=args.onemkl_interfaces_dir,
     )