diff --git a/containerd/.signature b/containerd/.signature
index 8fcdc2c84..27d129dc7 100644
--- a/containerd/.signature
+++ b/containerd/.signature
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 untrusted comment: verify with /etc/ports/contrib.pub
-RWSagIOpLGJF3/NqCfN7efvVqblmBlBsYSMjR5pqf8T7xkzjqG0G+a5u8c+vNdfARMKAzZHF3ApdNQ5bQJWoe3+OtmZilkPYag0=
-SHA256 (Pkgfile) = 79c18bf920a99467ea5435a787ca0c86e519959c8f6f41387f03d18ef206468b
+RWSagIOpLGJF3/F0/x0vIscqeiiGJB1b12YpOlmKJZ+EhVvMGnbVVEOv/YRcHfMMKVEFiw3MEXKknmtnISxYVyMS/iGdLM/4eAg=
+SHA256 (Pkgfile) = 1a714525d543be33f290b66b4222a32e798a103e3413bde035817414a47efcfa
 SHA256 (.footprint) = fcb21e77eaefae687cbea41bdacbe47a1191c052138040fc15368af8bf7b436c
-SHA256 (containerd-1.7.8.tar.xz) = 5931dc4f2f1001ea22012397f8646e2db0387fd93cef6470bf4ac22ee146409f
+SHA256 (containerd-1.7.9.tar.xz) = d7cfc8cf353a8d64b6c66dbd2d61d7c6a83e717ce5b04dfe987315f0936b43f7
diff --git a/containerd/Pkgfile b/containerd/Pkgfile
index c7ad348a3..fc7ca2886 100644
--- a/containerd/Pkgfile
+++ b/containerd/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on: go btrfs-progs git libseccomp
 
 name=containerd
-version=1.7.8
+version=1.7.9
 release=1
 source=(https://crux.nu/files/$name-$version.tar.xz)
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ build() {
     cd $name
     export GOPATH=$SRC
     # use the long commit hash here
-    make GIT_COMMIT=8e4b0bde866788eec76735cc77c4720144248fb7
+    make GIT_COMMIT=4f03e100cb967922bec7459a78d16ccbac9bb81d
     install -d -m 0755 $PKG/usr/bin
     install -m 0755 bin/* $PKG/usr/bin/
 }