diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 968097cd3..21b615f81 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ SPDK_CENTOS_REPO_VER="9.0-21.el9"
 
 # Ceph Cluster
 CEPH_CLUSTER_VERSION="${CEPH_VERSION}"
-CEPH_BRANCH=main
-CEPH_SHA=latest
+CEPH_BRANCH=wip-leonidc1712-epoch-filter-fix-startup-centos9-only
+CEPH_SHA=ae5b73b29f57474a788b6e7ee62cb095cba7707d
 
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph