diff --git a/src/freedombone-app-mediagoblin b/src/freedombone-app-mediagoblin
index 34f6b4f7..7fb47e3f 100755
--- a/src/freedombone-app-mediagoblin
+++ b/src/freedombone-app-mediagoblin
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ MEDIAGOBLIN_ADMIN_PASSWORD=
 MEDIAGOBLIN_CODE=
 MEDIAGOBLIN_ONION_PORT=8108
 MEDIAGOBLIN_REPO="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/mediagoblin.git"
+MEDIAGOBLIN_COMMIT='c4d3293dfa4076719e60fe9e052add07426f9a9a'
 MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR=/var/www/mediagoblin.local/htdocs
 MEDIAGOBLIN_PORT=6543
 
@@ -259,7 +260,7 @@ function install_mediagoblin {
     mkdir -p $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR
     chown -hR mediagoblin:www-data $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR
     su -c "cd $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR && git clone $MEDIAGOBLIN_REPO $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR/mediagoblin" - mediagoblin
-    su -c "cd $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR/mediagoblin && git checkout stable" - mediagoblin
+    su -c "cd $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR/mediagoblin && git checkout $MEDIAGOBLIN_COMMIT -b $MEDIAGOBLIN_COMMIT" - mediagoblin
     su -c "cd $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR/mediagoblin && git submodule sync" - mediagoblin
     su -c "cd $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR/mediagoblin && git submodule update --force --init --recursive" - mediagoblin
     su -c "cd $MEDIAGOBLIN_BASE_DIR/mediagoblin && ./bootstrap.sh" - mediagoblin