diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 90b30944..d369e5ff 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 variables:
   UPSTREAM_REPO: wayland/weston
-  DEBIAN_VERSION: stretch
+  DEBIAN_VERSION: buster
   DEBIAN_EXEC: 'bash .gitlab-ci/debian-install.sh'
 
-  DEBIAN_TAG: '2019-06-14.0'
+  DEBIAN_TAG: '2019-06-26.0'
   DEBIAN_CONTAINER_IMAGE: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/debian/$DEBIAN_VERSION:$DEBIAN_TAG
 
 
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/debian-install.sh b/.gitlab-ci/debian-install.sh
index 63d7de41..2ebb0260 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/debian-install.sh
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/debian-install.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 set -o xtrace
 
-echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
+echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
 apt-get update
-apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install build-essential automake autoconf libtool pkg-config libexpat1-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libpixman-1-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libcolord-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libwayland-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libx11-xcb-dev libx11-dev libudev-dev libgbm-dev libxkbcommon-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libxcursor-dev libmtdev-dev libpam0g-dev libvpx-dev libsystemd-dev libevdev-dev libinput-dev libwebp-dev libjpeg-dev libva-dev liblcms2-dev git libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev freerdp2-dev curl python3-pip python3-setuptools doxygen ninja-build
+apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install build-essential automake autoconf libtool pkg-config libexpat1-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libpixman-1-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libcolord-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libwayland-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libx11-xcb-dev libx11-dev libudev-dev libgbm-dev libxkbcommon-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libxcursor-dev libmtdev-dev libpam0g-dev libvpx-dev libsystemd-dev libevdev-dev libinput-dev libwebp-dev libjpeg-dev libva-dev liblcms2-dev git libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev freerdp2-dev curl python3-pip python3-setuptools doxygen ninja-build libdbus-1-dev
 
 pip3 install --user git+https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson.git@0.49
 # for documentation