diff --git a/docker/common/install_nixl.sh b/docker/common/install_nixl.sh
index 2bf03ca4b7a..b7ee249c1f8 100644
--- a/docker/common/install_nixl.sh
+++ b/docker/common/install_nixl.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -ex
 GITHUB_URL="https://github.com"
 UCX_INSTALL_PATH="/usr/local/ucx/"
 CUDA_PATH="/usr/local/cuda"
-NIXL_VERSION="0.5.0"
+NIXL_VERSION="0.7.1"
 NIXL_REPO="https://github.com/ai-dynamo/nixl.git"
 OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
diff --git a/jenkins/current_image_tags.properties b/jenkins/current_image_tags.properties
index 8f390ad084d..b62916438e5 100644
--- a/jenkins/current_image_tags.properties
+++ b/jenkins/current_image_tags.properties
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #     images are adopted from PostMerge pipelines, the abbreviated commit hash is used instead.
 IMAGE_NAME=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm
 
-LLM_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm:pytorch-25.10-py3-x86_64-ubuntu24.04-trt10.13.3.9-skip-tritondevel-202511131803-8929
-LLM_SBSA_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm:pytorch-25.10-py3-aarch64-ubuntu24.04-trt10.13.3.9-skip-tritondevel-202511131803-8929
-LLM_ROCKYLINUX8_PY310_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm:cuda-13.0.2-devel-rocky8-x86_64-rocky8-py310-trt10.13.3.9-skip-tritondevel-202511131803-8929
-LLM_ROCKYLINUX8_PY312_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm:cuda-13.0.2-devel-rocky8-x86_64-rocky8-py312-trt10.13.3.9-skip-tritondevel-202511131803-8929
+LLM_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel:x86_64-tritondevel-torch_skip-86de216-github-pr-9055-1161
+LLM_SBSA_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel:sbsa-tritondevel-torch_skip-86de216-github-pr-9055-1161
+LLM_ROCKYLINUX8_PY310_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel:x86_64-rockylinux8-torch_skip-py310-86de216-github-pr-9055-1161
+LLM_ROCKYLINUX8_PY312_DOCKER_IMAGE=urm.nvidia.com/sw-tensorrt-docker/tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel:x86_64-rockylinux8-torch_skip-py312-86de216-github-pr-9055-1161
diff --git a/tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector.py b/tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector.py
index ba624b299d0..f4f6c122823 100644
--- a/tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector.py
+++ b/tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector.py
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ def test_connector_disagg_prefill(enforce_single_worker, model_with_connector,
 
     model = model_fn(
         disable_overlap_scheduler=True,
-        cache_transceiver_config=CacheTransceiverConfig(backend="DEFAULT"))
+        cache_transceiver_config=CacheTransceiverConfig(backend="UCX"))
 
     sampling_params = SamplingParams(ignore_eos=True)