diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 95e548cfbc..2459c284d7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ LABEL name="Stork" \
        summary="Storage Operator Runtime for Kubernetes" \
        description="Stork is a Cloud Native storage operator runtime scheduler plugin"
 
-RUN curl https://yum.portworx.com/dl/ubi8/libxml2-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm -o libxml.rpm && rpm -U libxml.rpm && rm -f libxml.rpm
-
 RUN microdnf clean all && microdnf install -y python3.9 ca-certificates tar gzip openssl
 
 RUN python3 -m pip install awscli  && python3 -m pip install rsa --upgrade
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 33dfa92437..84998cd086 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),debug)
 BUILDFLAGS += -gcflags "-N -l"
 endif
 
-RELEASE_VER := 2.12.3
+RELEASE_VER := 2.12.4
 BASE_DIR    := $(shell git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
 GIT_SHA     := $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD)
 BIN         :=$(BASE_DIR)/bin