diff --git a/common/.commonfiles.sha b/common/.commonfiles.sha
index 5b46c06810..0a6a601e54 100644
--- a/common/.commonfiles.sha
+++ b/common/.commonfiles.sha
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bb929efe369f9fa29f08fc0efff7b783fb70ae31
+6fc77d2bc056971c390b5a3b6bf6f19abcaec802
diff --git a/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh b/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
index 8350872840..802d0d6bf9 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:v1.33.1"
+DEFAULT_KIND_IMAGE="gcr.io/istio-testing/kind-node:v1.34.0"
 
 # the default kind cluster should be ipv4 if not otherwise specified
 KIND_IP_FAMILY="${KIND_IP_FAMILY:-ipv4}"