diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 2fcd033..cce1f9b 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 ## Upgrading
 
 * Update and fix readme to make use of newest release version 0.8.0
+* Updates the base client to version 0.6.
 
 ## New Features
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 038f8b2..e91b06f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "grpcio >= 1.54.2, < 2",
   "grpcio-tools >= 1.54.2, < 2",
   "protobuf >= 4.25.3, < 6",
-  "frequenz-client-base[grpcio] >= 0.5.0, < 0.6.0",
+  "frequenz-client-base >= 0.6.0, < 0.7.0",
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
diff --git a/src/frequenz/client/reporting/_client.py b/src/frequenz/client/reporting/_client.py
index 3bb3214..d4dc68b 100644
--- a/src/frequenz/client/reporting/_client.py
+++ b/src/frequenz/client/reporting/_client.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[MetricSample]:
                         )
 
 
-class ReportingApiClient(BaseApiClient[ReportingStub, grpcaio.Channel]):
+class ReportingApiClient(BaseApiClient[ReportingStub]):
     """A client for the Reporting service."""
 
     def __init__(self, server_url: str, key: str | None = None) -> None:
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def __init__(self, server_url: str, key: str | None = None) -> None:
             server_url: The URL of the Reporting service.
             key: The API key for the authorization.
         """
-        super().__init__(server_url, ReportingStub, grpcaio.Channel)
+        super().__init__(server_url, ReportingStub)
 
         self._metadata = (("key", key),) if key else ()
 
diff --git a/tests/test_client_reporting.py b/tests/test_client_reporting.py
index 4bf8ba3..306482b 100644
--- a/tests/test_client_reporting.py
+++ b/tests/test_client_reporting.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 """Tests for the frequenz.client.reporting package."""
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
-import grpc.aio as grpcaio
 import pytest
 from frequenz.api.reporting.v1.reporting_pb2_grpc import ReportingStub
 from frequenz.client.base.client import BaseApiClient
@@ -15,12 +14,10 @@
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_client_initialization() -> None:
-    """Test that the client initializes the BaseApiClient with grpcaio.Channel."""
+    """Test that the client initializes the BaseApiClient."""
     with patch.object(BaseApiClient, "__init__", return_value=None) as mock_base_init:
         client = ReportingApiClient("gprc://localhost:50051")  # noqa: F841
-        mock_base_init.assert_called_once_with(
-            "gprc://localhost:50051", ReportingStub, grpcaio.Channel
-        )
+        mock_base_init.assert_called_once_with("gprc://localhost:50051", ReportingStub)
 
 
 def test_components_data_batch_is_empty_true() -> None: