diff --git a/Containerfile.in b/Containerfile.in
index 9ee2b001..d5cbfcfd 100644
--- a/Containerfile.in
+++ b/Containerfile.in
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE_ORG="${BASE_IMAGE_ORG}:-quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops"
-ARG BASE_IMAGE_NAME="${BASE_IMAGE_NAME}:-kinoite"
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_ORG
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_NAME
 ARG BASE_IMAGE="${BASE_IMAGE_ORG}/${BASE_IMAGE_NAME}"
-ARG FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION="${FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION}:-43"
-ARG AKMODS_FLAVOR="${AKMODS_FLAVOR}-${FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION}:-coreos-stable-43"
-ARG KERNEL="${KERNEL}:-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64"
-ARG COMMON_IMAGE="${COMMON_IMAGE}:-ghcr.io/get-aurora-dev/common:latest"
-ARG COMMON_IMAGE_SHA=""
-ARG BREW_IMAGE="${BREW_IMAGE}:-ghcr.io/ublue-os/brew:latest"
-ARG BREW_IMAGE_SHA=""
+ARG FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION
+ARG AKMODS_FLAVOR
+ARG KERNEL
+ARG COMMON_IMAGE
+ARG COMMON_IMAGE_SHA
+ARG BREW_IMAGE
+ARG BREW_IMAGE_SHA
 
 FROM ${COMMON_IMAGE}@${COMMON_IMAGE_SHA} AS common
 FROM ${BREW_IMAGE}@${BREW_IMAGE_SHA} AS brew
diff --git a/Justfile b/Justfile
index 9875b049..c7001e14 100644
--- a/Justfile
+++ b/Justfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export common_image := env("COMMON_IMAGE", "ghcr.io/get-aurora-dev/common:latest
 export brew_image := env("BREW_IMAGE", "ghcr.io/ublue-os/brew:latest")
 rechunker_image := "ghcr.io/ublue-os/legacy-rechunk:v1.0.1-x86_64@sha256:2627cbf92ca60ab7372070dcf93b40f457926f301509ffba47a04d6a9e1ddaf7"
 stable_version := "43"
-latest_version := "43"
+latest_version := "44"
 beta_version := "44"
 images := '(
     [aurora]=aurora
diff --git a/image-versions.yml b/image-versions.yml
index e1e566c8..df9936de 100644
--- a/image-versions.yml
+++ b/image-versions.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 images:
   - name: kinoite
     image: quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops/kinoite
-    tag: 43
-    digest: sha256:a8240c31a848ff9da672e8223100787709d947e6dc9ee6433e76f426efb1652d
+    tag: 44
+    digest: sha256:27e4c5c806e2f9259be549c87608ebbf18fa878ebd18da911fdd22de3d6a01e5
   - name: common
     image: ghcr.io/get-aurora-dev/common
     tag: latest