diff --git a/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml b/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml
index 0b6e316..8a66f5c 100644
--- a/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml
+++ b/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml
@@ -687,6 +687,12 @@
           default: '{karafHome}'
           description: 'Karaf home'
 
+      # remove once voltha-2.6 is deprecated
+      - string:
+          name: kindVolthaChange
+          default: '{kindVolthaChange}'
+          description: 'Download a change for gerrit in the kind-voltha repo, example value: "refs/changes/32/19132/1"'
+
 - job-template:
     id: 'voltha-scale-measurements'
     name: '{name}'
@@ -751,6 +757,7 @@
     onosStatInterval: 5
     volthaSystemTestsChange: ''
     volthaHelmChartsChange: ''
+    kindVolthaChange: ''
     inMemoryEtcdStorage: true
     karafHome: 'apache-karaf-4.2.9'
     logLevel: 'INFO'
@@ -852,6 +859,7 @@
     onosStatInterval: 5
     volthaSystemTestsChange: ''
     volthaHelmChartsChange: ''
+    kindVolthaChange: ''
     inMemoryEtcdStorage: true
     karafHome: 'apache-karaf-4.2.9'
     logLevel: 'INFO'
@@ -907,6 +915,7 @@
     build-node: 'voltha-scale'
     volthaSystemTestsChange: ''
     volthaHelmChartsChange: ''
+    kindVolthaChange: ''
     onosReplicas: 1
     atomixReplicas: 0
     kafkaReplicas: 1