diff --git a/cluster/manifests/skipper/skipper-valkey.yaml b/cluster/manifests/skipper/skipper-valkey.yaml
index 231dde60f8..58e9c99418 100644
--- a/cluster/manifests/skipper/skipper-valkey.yaml
+++ b/cluster/manifests/skipper/skipper-valkey.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# {{ $image := "container-registry.zalando.net/library/valkey-9-alpine:9-alpine3.22-20260414" }}
+# {{ $image := "container-registry.zalando.net/library/valkey-9-alpine:9-alpine3.22-20260427" }}
 # {{ $version := index (split $image ":") 1 }}
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: StatefulSet