diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/attributes/slurm_attributes.rb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/attributes/slurm_attributes.rb
index 042bbcb71..2e6723bb4 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/attributes/slurm_attributes.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/attributes/slurm_attributes.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 # Slurm attributes shared between install_slurm and configure_slurm_accounting
 default['cluster']['slurm']['commit'] = ''
-default['cluster']['slurm']['branch'] = ''
+default['cluster']['slurm']['branch'] = 'slurm-23.02'
 default['cluster']['slurm']['sha256'] = '4fee743a34514d8fe487080048256f5ee032374ed5f42d0eae342110dcd59edf'
 default['cluster']['slurm']['install_dir'] = '/opt/slurm'