diff --git a/common/.commonfiles.sha b/common/.commonfiles.sha
index 98de0107ace..9fbb1ffcc3d 100644
--- a/common/.commonfiles.sha
+++ b/common/.commonfiles.sha
@@ -1 +1 @@
-c82168bbb849c1f6d9cb0c58807771a169e35387
+ec3c720da233662bf9fb0153e72d9c493d42e49e
diff --git a/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh b/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
index fc8941a51b9..62b6187d6ad 100644
--- a/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
+++ b/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ set -x
 ####################################################################
 
 # DEFAULT_KIND_IMAGE is used to set the Kubernetes version for KinD unless overridden in params to setup_kind_cluster(s)
-DEFAULT_KIND_IMAGE="gcr.io/istio-testing/kind-node:v1.27.3"
+DEFAULT_KIND_IMAGE="gcr.io/istio-testing/kind-node:v1.28.4"
 
 # COMMON_SCRIPTS contains the directory this file is in.
 COMMON_SCRIPTS=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE:-$0}")