diff --git a/src/tests/ftest/dfuse/daos_build.py b/src/tests/ftest/dfuse/daos_build.py
index 5e7c30d25be..713db2942b6 100644
--- a/src/tests/ftest/dfuse/daos_build.py
+++ b/src/tests/ftest/dfuse/daos_build.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ def run_build_test(self, cache_mode, intercept=False, run_on_vms=False):
 
         cmds = ['python3 -m venv {}/venv'.format(mount_dir),
                 'git clone https://github.com/daos-stack/daos.git {}'.format(build_dir),
-                'git -C {} checkout release/2.4'.format(build_dir),
+                'git -C {} checkout google/2.4'.format(build_dir),
                 'git -C {} submodule init'.format(build_dir),
                 'git -C {} submodule update'.format(build_dir),
                 'python3 -m pip install pip --upgrade',