diff --git a/containers/neutron/Dockerfile b/containers/neutron/Dockerfile
index 8a7031069..601530a34 100644
--- a/containers/neutron/Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/neutron/Dockerfile
@@ -5,12 +5,19 @@ FROM quay.io/airshipit/neutron:${OPENSTACK_VERSION}-ubuntu_noble AS build
 
 COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/
 
+# renovate: name=openstack/neutron repo=https://github.com/rackerlabs/neutron.git branch=stable/2025.2
+ARG NEUTRON_GIT_REF=feca3f33e610555099caececa990f18c2bad8c9c
+ADD --keep-git-dir=true https://github.com/rackerlabs/neutron.git#${NEUTRON_GIT_REF} /src/neutron
+RUN git -C /src/neutron fetch --unshallow --tags
+
 COPY python/neutron-understack /src/neutron-understack
 
 ARG OPENSTACK_VERSION="required_argument"
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
     uv pip install \
+      --upgrade \
       --constraint https://releases.openstack.org/constraints/upper/${OPENSTACK_VERSION} \
+        /src/neutron \
         /src/neutron-understack
 
 ARG OPENSTACK_VERSION="required_argument"