diff --git a/util/mirror-tarballs b/util/mirror-tarballs
index 90a0bd7..0314318 100755
--- a/util/mirror-tarballs
+++ b/util/mirror-tarballs
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ cd ..
 
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-ver=0.16
+ver=0.17rc1
 $root/util/get-tarball "https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-memcached/tarball/v$ver" -O "lua-resty-memcached-$ver.tar.gz" || exit 1
 tar -xzf lua-resty-memcached-$ver.tar.gz || exit 1
 mv openresty-lua-resty-memcached-* lua-resty-memcached-$ver || exit 1