diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES
index 67353fe8..0d67d05b 100644
--- a/DEPENDENCIES
+++ b/DEPENDENCIES
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 DOCKER_VERSION=17.06
-KUBERNETES_VERSION=1.9.2
+KUBERNETES_VERSION=1.10.0
 KUBERNETES_CNI_VERSION=0.6.0
diff --git a/test/840_weave_kube_3_test.sh b/test/840_weave_kube_3_test.sh
index 48d57d56..63d305bf 100755
--- a/test/840_weave_kube_3_test.sh
+++ b/test/840_weave_kube_3_test.sh
@@ -34,11 +34,10 @@ docker_on $HOST1 run --rm --privileged --net=host --entrypoint=/usr/sbin/ipset w
 
 # kubeadm init upgrades to latest Kubernetes version by default, therefore we try to lock the version using the below option:
 k8s_version="$(run_on $HOST1 "kubelet --version" | grep -oP "(?<=Kubernetes )v[\d\.\-beta]+")"
-k8s_version_option="$([[ "$k8s_version" > "v1.6" ]] && echo "kubernetes-version" || echo "use-kubernetes-version")"
 
 for host in $HOSTS; do
     if [ $host = $HOST1 ] ; then
-	run_on $host "sudo systemctl start kubelet && sudo kubeadm init --$k8s_version_option=$k8s_version --token=$TOKEN --pod-network-cidr=$WEAVE_NETWORK"
+	run_on $host "sudo systemctl start kubelet && sudo kubeadm init --kubernetes-version=$k8s_version --token=$TOKEN --pod-network-cidr=$WEAVE_NETWORK"
     else
 	run_on $host "sudo systemctl start kubelet && sudo kubeadm join --token=$TOKEN --discovery-token-unsafe-skip-ca-verification $HOST1IP:$KUBE_PORT"
     fi
diff --git a/test/870_weave_recovers_unreachable_ips_on_relaunch_3_test.sh b/test/870_weave_recovers_unreachable_ips_on_relaunch_3_test.sh
index ea7ba401..33dcdcfb 100755
--- a/test/870_weave_recovers_unreachable_ips_on_relaunch_3_test.sh
+++ b/test/870_weave_recovers_unreachable_ips_on_relaunch_3_test.sh
@@ -38,11 +38,10 @@ function setup_kubernetes_cluster {
 
     # kubeadm init upgrades to latest Kubernetes version by default, therefore we try to lock the version using the below option:
     k8s_version="$(run_on $HOST1 "kubelet --version" | grep -oP "(?<=Kubernetes )v[\d\.\-beta]+")"
-    k8s_version_option="$([[ "$k8s_version" > "v1.6" ]] && echo "kubernetes-version" || echo "use-kubernetes-version")"
 
     for host in $HOSTS; do
         if [ $host = $HOST1 ] ; then
-        run_on $host "sudo systemctl start kubelet && sudo kubeadm init --$k8s_version_option=$k8s_version --token=$TOKEN"
+        run_on $host "sudo systemctl start kubelet && sudo kubeadm init --kubernetes-version=$k8s_version --token=$TOKEN"
         else
         run_on $host "sudo systemctl start kubelet && sudo kubeadm join --token=$TOKEN --discovery-token-unsafe-skip-ca-verification $HOST1IP:$KUBE_PORT"
         fi