diff --git a/tests/Makefile b/tests/Makefile
index caf7c43f8..6a3a90c07 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/Makefile
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ $(BUILDDIR)/%:
 $(CARTESI_IMAGES): | $(CARTESI_IMAGES_PATH)
 	@wget -nc -i dependencies -P $(CARTESI_IMAGES_PATH)
 	@shasum -ca 256 dependencies.sha256
-	@cd $(CARTESI_IMAGES_PATH) && ln -s rootfs-tools-v0.15.0.ext2 rootfs.ext2
+	@cd $(CARTESI_IMAGES_PATH) && ln -s rootfs-tools-v0.16.0-output-unification-v2-test1.ext2 rootfs.ext2
 	@cd $(CARTESI_IMAGES_PATH) && ln -s linux-6.5.13-ctsi-1-v0.20.0.bin linux.bin
 
 images: | $(CARTESI_IMAGES)
diff --git a/tests/dependencies b/tests/dependencies
index ed059863e..77c8803ea 100644
--- a/tests/dependencies
+++ b/tests/dependencies
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-https://github.com/cartesi/machine-emulator-tools/releases/download/v0.15.0/rootfs-tools-v0.15.0.ext2
+https://github.com/cartesi/machine-emulator-tools/releases/download/v0.16.0-output-unification-v2-test5/rootfs-tools-v0.16.0-output-unification-v2-test1.ext2
 https://github.com/cartesi/image-kernel/releases/download/v0.20.0/linux-6.5.13-ctsi-1-v0.20.0.bin