diff --git a/scripts/installer.sh b/scripts/installer.sh
index c5540997d..b320add0e 100755
--- a/scripts/installer.sh
+++ b/scripts/installer.sh
@@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ for image_ref in ${images}; do
     done
 done
 
+# remove after 8.2 . we used to have infra.base and this tag will prevent clean up
+docker rmi -f registry.docker.com/cloudron/base:4.2.0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
 if [[ "${is_update}" == "yes" ]]; then
     log "stop box service for update"
     ${box_src_dir}/setup/stop.sh
diff --git a/src/infra_version.js b/src/infra_version.js
index b5ca34e1c..509246537 100644
--- a/src/infra_version.js
+++ b/src/infra_version.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ exports = module.exports = {
     // a major version bump in the db containers will trigger the restore logic that uses the db dumps
     // docker inspect --format='{{index .RepoDigests 0}}' $IMAGE to get the sha256 . note this has registry in it because manifest id is registry specific!
     'images': {
-        'base': 'registry.docker.com/cloudron/base:4.2.0@sha256:46da2fffb36353ef714f97ae8e962bd2c212ca091108d768ba473078319a47f4',
+        // 'base': 'registry.docker.com/cloudron/base:4.2.0@sha256:46da2fffb36353ef714f97ae8e962bd2c212ca091108d768ba473078319a47f4',
         'graphite': 'registry.docker.com/cloudron/graphite:3.4.3@sha256:75df420ece34b31a7ce8d45b932246b7f524c123e1854f5e8f115a9e94e33f20',
         'mail': 'registry.docker.com/cloudron/mail:3.14.0@sha256:06bb0f3e225b0a1f07cfdfdbc75840d6e662556e2cf919c9190531998c04be26',
         'mongodb': 'registry.docker.com/cloudron/mongodb:6.0.0@sha256:1108319805acfb66115aa96a8fdbf2cded28d46da0e04d171a87ec734b453d1e',