diff --git a/components/smee-client/staging/kustomization.yaml b/components/smee-client/staging/kustomization.yaml
index 644e1496dcd..360c0248840 100644
--- a/components/smee-client/staging/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/components/smee-client/staging/kustomization.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ resources:
 images:
 - name: quay.io/konflux-ci/smee-sidecar
   newName: quay.io/konflux-ci/smee-sidecar
-  newTag: ff9f8ccd3cedaf21827ac2ef86c49847c970bab9
+  newTag: b497937263e68fc28e1696f670652c6df50d4424
 
 patches:
   - path: sever-url-patch.yaml