diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 0b9d0e971..b5ec861aa 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ SPDK_CENTOS_REPO_VER="9.0-21.el9"
 
 # Ceph Cluster
 CEPH_CLUSTER_VERSION="${CEPH_VERSION}"
-CEPH_BRANCH=ceph-nvmeof-mon
-CEPH_SHA=1c8eaaed171338ca430801cd2a0de955426cce1d
+CEPH_BRANCH=wip-leonidc-20240418-map_validation
+CEPH_SHA=78ac9ff669e20c40f341ed941a3b8784f05ff405
 CEPH_VSTART_ARGS="--memstore"
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph