diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 1b15f4da..b6ac9206 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ env:
   # a step 'if env.AWS_USR' != ""', so we copy these to succinctly test whether
   # credentials have been provided before trying to run steps that need them.
   DOCKER_USR: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USR }}
+  XPKG_ACCESS_ID: ${{ secrets.XPKG_ACCESS_ID }}
   AWS_USR: ${{ secrets.AWS_USR }}
 
 jobs:
@@ -302,7 +303,15 @@ jobs:
         with:
           username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USR }}
           password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PSW }}
-      
+
+      - name: Login to Upbound
+        uses: docker/login-action@v1
+        if: env.XPKG_ACCESS_ID != ''
+        with:
+          registry: xpkg.upbound.io
+          username: ${{ secrets.XPKG_ACCESS_ID }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.XPKG_TOKEN }}     
+
       - name: Publish Artifacts to S3 and Docker Hub
         run: make -j2 publish BRANCH_NAME=${GITHUB_REF##*/}
         if: env.AWS_USR != '' && env.DOCKER_USR != ''
@@ -319,4 +328,4 @@ jobs:
           CHANNEL: master
           AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_USR }}
           AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_PSW }}
-        
\ No newline at end of file
+        
diff --git a/cluster/local/integration_tests.sh b/cluster/local/integration_tests.sh
index 9e307361..c24ff9c5 100755
--- a/cluster/local/integration_tests.sh
+++ b/cluster/local/integration_tests.sh
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ echo "${PVC_YAML}" | "${KUBECTL}" create -f -
 # install crossplane from master channel
 echo_step "installing crossplane from master channel"
 "${HELM3}" repo add crossplane-stable https://charts.crossplane.io/stable
-# chart_version="$("${HELM3}" search repo crossplane-master/crossplane --devel | awk 'FNR == 2 {print $2}')"
-echo_info "using crossplane version 1.6.4"
+chart_version="$("${HELM3}" search repo crossplane-stable/crossplane | awk 'FNR == 2 {print $2}')"
+echo_info "using crossplane version ${chart_version}"
 echo
 # we replace empty dir with our PVC so that the /cache dir in the kind node
 # container is exposed to the crossplane pod