diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index e9a4888076114dace80c85dfa815cbd4efdc5060..85e77f49135c1434ee24833fb47b016e0779f55a 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Official language image. Look for the different tagged releases at:
 # https://hub.docker.com/r/library/python/tags/
-image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/python:3.6
+image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/python:latest
 
 # Change pip's cache directory to be inside the project directory since we can
 # only cache local items.