diff --git a/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile b/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile
index 9fb1fc33fe3c..e482e8e6c405 100644
--- a/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile
+++ b/backend/cpp/ds4/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # ds4 backend Makefile.
 #
-# Upstream pin lives below as DS4_VERSION?=22393e770ea8eb7501d8718d6f66c6374004e03f
+# Upstream pin lives below as DS4_VERSION?=e16ead1e29c81a67bbb64e5b001117679cf9ce6e
 # (.github/bump_deps.sh) can find and update it - matches the
 # llama-cpp / ik-llama-cpp / turboquant convention.
 
-DS4_VERSION?=22393e770ea8eb7501d8718d6f66c6374004e03f
+DS4_VERSION?=e16ead1e29c81a67bbb64e5b001117679cf9ce6e
 DS4_REPO?=https://github.com/antirez/ds4
 
 CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR := $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))