diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 240a2e27808..c9b96a3a732 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ SPDK_CENTOS_REPO_VER="9.0-30.el9"
 
 # Ceph Cluster
 CEPH_CLUSTER_VERSION="${CEPH_VERSION}"
-CEPH_BRANCH=main
-CEPH_SHA=latest
+CEPH_BRANCH=wip-leonidc1811-beacon-diff
+CEPH_SHA=a66f7b2d728900e7257485f0e69de33c765b3f84
 
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph