diff --git a/src/object/obj_rpc.h b/src/object/obj_rpc.h
index 3b65c705034..827910d84b3 100644
--- a/src/object/obj_rpc.h
+++ b/src/object/obj_rpc.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * These are for daos_rpc::dr_opc and DAOS_RPC_OPCODE(opc, ...) rather than
  * crt_req_create(..., opc, ...). See daos_rpc.h.
  */
-#define DAOS_OBJ_VERSION 9
+#define DAOS_OBJ_VERSION 8
 /* LIST of internal RPCS in form of:
  * OPCODE, flags, FMT, handler, corpc_hdlr and name
  */