diff --git a/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile b/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile
index b64003dd9997..ff8c9dd75e84 100644
--- a/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile
+++ b/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # ds4 backend Makefile.
 #
-# Upstream pin lives below as DS4_VERSION?=ad0209f6a4b067574d2b4afe896c08c177156b31
+# Upstream pin lives below as DS4_VERSION?=e8e8779b261c10f36ad6270ba732c8f0be5b62e3
 # (.github/bump_deps.sh) can find and update it - matches the
 # llama-cpp / ik-llama-cpp / turboquant convention.
 
-DS4_VERSION?=ad0209f6a4b067574d2b4afe896c08c177156b31
+DS4_VERSION?=e8e8779b261c10f36ad6270ba732c8f0be5b62e3
 DS4_REPO?=https://github.com/antirez/ds4
 
 CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR := $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))