diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.ci b/docker/Dockerfile.ci
index 9d2f49344..98bfec375 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.ci
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.ci
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ARG VLLM_BASE_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai
-ARG VLLM_BASE_TAG=v0.16.0
+ARG VLLM_BASE_TAG=v0.17.0
 FROM ${VLLM_BASE_IMAGE}:${VLLM_BASE_TAG}
 ARG APP_DIR=/workspace/vllm-omni
 WORKDIR ${APP_DIR}
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
 # Note: --prerelease=allow is required because nightly/commit wheels use
 # pre-release version numbers (e.g. 2.10.0.dev...) which uv ignores by default,
 # causing it to fall back to the older stable release from PyPI.
-RUN uv pip install --system --upgrade --force-reinstall --prerelease=allow vllm --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/097eb544e9a22810c9b7a59e586b61627b308362
+# RUN uv pip install --system --upgrade --force-reinstall --prerelease=allow vllm --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/097eb544e9a22810c9b7a59e586b61627b308362
 
 RUN uv pip install --system --no-cache-dir ".[dev]"
 RUN uv pip install --system --upgrade \