diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 8ffc0bb288..5231e380ef 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/containerd/btrfs/v2 v2.0.0
 	github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3 v3.0.5
 	github.com/containerd/console v1.0.4
-	github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0-rc.0
+	github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0
 	github.com/containerd/continuity v0.4.5
 	github.com/containerd/errdefs v1.0.0
 	github.com/containerd/errdefs/pkg v0.3.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index b193c01653..87a40051b1 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3 v3.0.5 h1:44na7Ud+VwyE7LIoJ8JTNQOa549a8543BmzaJ
 github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3 v3.0.5/go.mod h1:SA5DLYnXO8pTGYiAHXz94qvLQTKfVM5GEVisn4jpins=
 github.com/containerd/console v1.0.4 h1:F2g4+oChYvBTsASRTz8NP6iIAi97J3TtSAsLbIFn4ro=
 github.com/containerd/console v1.0.4/go.mod h1:YynlIjWYF8myEu6sdkwKIvGQq+cOckRm6So2avqoYAk=
-github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0-rc.0 h1:qs7q8DSuxFKF9oKdYuhRhmdDSck77JEqzf9ExaTL72E=
-github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0-rc.0/go.mod h1:GhghKFmTR3hNtyznBoQ0EMWr9ju5AqHjcZPsSpTKutI=
+github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0 h1:HZ/licowTRazus+wt9fM6r/9BQO7S0vD5lMcWspGIg0=
+github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0/go.mod h1:GhghKFmTR3hNtyznBoQ0EMWr9ju5AqHjcZPsSpTKutI=
 github.com/containerd/continuity v0.4.5 h1:ZRoN1sXq9u7V6QoHMcVWGhOwDFqZ4B9i5H6un1Wh0x4=
 github.com/containerd/continuity v0.4.5/go.mod h1:/lNJvtJKUQStBzpVQ1+rasXO1LAWtUQssk28EZvJ3nE=
 github.com/containerd/errdefs v1.0.0 h1:tg5yIfIlQIrxYtu9ajqY42W3lpS19XqdxRQeEwYG8PI=
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index e80978dd84..9f8ad24e38 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3/cgroup2/stats
 # github.com/containerd/console v1.0.4
 ## explicit; go 1.13
 github.com/containerd/console
-# github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0-rc.0
+# github.com/containerd/containerd/api v1.9.0
 ## explicit; go 1.23.0
 github.com/containerd/containerd/api/events
 github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/sandbox/v1