diff --git a/releases/voltha-2.3 b/releases/voltha-2.3
index ac40918..f0b174f 100644
--- a/releases/voltha-2.3
+++ b/releases/voltha-2.3
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 export ONOS_CHART_VERSION=3.0.1
 export VOLTCTL_VERSION=1.0.18
 export WITH_ONOS=legacy
+export KIND_VERSION=v.5.1
+export HELM_VERSION=2.16.9
 
 # defaults.image_tag=null will use the image tags in the Helm charts rather than
 # kind-voltha's default which is 'master'.
diff --git a/releases/voltha-2.4 b/releases/voltha-2.4
index 32ee212..04529f7 100644
--- a/releases/voltha-2.4
+++ b/releases/voltha-2.4
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 export VOLTCTL_VERSION=1.1.8
 export WITH_ONOS=classic
 export HELM_VERSION=v3.2.4
+export KIND_VERSION=v0.8.1
 
 # defaults.image_tag=null will use the image tags in the Helm charts rather than
 # kind-voltha's default which is 'master'.
diff --git a/voltha b/voltha
index 955a265..7f8d94c 100755
--- a/voltha
+++ b/voltha
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
 HELM_VERSION=${HELM_VERSION:-v3.2.4}
 VOLTCTL_VERSION=${VOLTCTL_VERSION:-latest}
-KIND_VERSION=${KIND_VERSION:-v0.5.1}
+KIND_VERSION=${KIND_VERSION:-v0.8.1}
 VK_RELEASE=${VK_RELEASE:-master}
 EXTRA_TOOLS=