diff --git a/.circleci/unittest/linux_stable/scripts/install.sh b/.circleci/unittest/linux_stable/scripts/install.sh
index f6d57945e69..69e965e3652 100755
--- a/.circleci/unittest/linux_stable/scripts/install.sh
+++ b/.circleci/unittest/linux_stable/scripts/install.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 printf "Installing functorch\n"
-pip install functorch
+pip install git+https://github.com/pytorch/functorch.git@release/0.2
 
 # smoke test
 python -c "import functorch"