diff --git a/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial b/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial
index 34918045..412d4654 100644
--- a/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial
+++ b/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors='airship-discuss@lists.airshipit.org, irc
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor='The Airship Authors' \
       org.opencontainers.image.licenses='Apache-2.0'
 
-ARG ETCDCTL_VERSION=3.3.12
+ARG ETCDCTL_VERSION=3.4.2
 
 RUN set -xe && \
     export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
diff --git a/images/etcdctl-utility/README.md b/images/etcdctl-utility/README.md
index ec5d3e07..c0b5c485 100644
--- a/images/etcdctl-utility/README.md
+++ b/images/etcdctl-utility/README.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ https://kubernetes-etcd.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:2379 is healthy:
 successfully committed proposal: took = 1.787714ms
 nobody@airship-etcdctl-utility-998b4f4d6-65x6d:/$ utilscli etcdctl alarm list
 nobody@airship-etcdctl-utility-998b4f4d6-65x6d:/$ utilscli etcdctl version
-etcdctl version: 3.3.12
+etcdctl version: 3.4.2
 API version: 3.3
 nobody@airship-etcdctl-utility-998b4f4d6-65x6d:/$
 ```