diff --git a/images/nginx/Makefile b/images/nginx/Makefile
index 9bc7ce6c9..28c356120 100644
--- a/images/nginx/Makefile
+++ b/images/nginx/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # 0.0.0 shouldn't clobber any released builds
-TAG ?= 0.70
+TAG ?= 0.71
 REGISTRY ?= quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller
 ARCH ?= $(shell go env GOARCH)
 DOCKER ?= docker
diff --git a/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh b/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
index d457faeb4..ab02807d9 100755
--- a/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
+++ b/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export SETMISC_VERSION=0.32
 export MORE_HEADERS_VERSION=0.33
 export NGINX_DIGEST_AUTH=274490cec649e7300fea97fed13d84e596bbc0ce
 export NGINX_SUBSTITUTIONS=bc58cb11844bc42735bbaef7085ea86ace46d05b
-export NGINX_OPENTRACING_VERSION=0.6.0
+export NGINX_OPENTRACING_VERSION=ea9994d7135be5ad2e3009d0f270e063b1fb3b21
 export OPENTRACING_CPP_VERSION=1.5.0
 export ZIPKIN_CPP_VERSION=0.5.2
 export JAEGER_VERSION=ba0fa3fa6dbb01995d996f988a897e272100bf95
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ get_src ede0ad490cb9dd69da348bdea2a60a4c45284c9777b2f13fa48394b6b8e7671c \
 get_src 618551948ab14cac51d6e4ad00452312c7b09938f59ebff4f93875013be31f2d \
         "https://github.com/yaoweibin/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module/archive/$NGINX_SUBSTITUTIONS.tar.gz"
 
-get_src b6a6eecb0b18b15398b7d6ed0a2db4cfd7a9015c1e26f9da4160acc588b82b6f \
-        "https://github.com/opentracing-contrib/nginx-opentracing/archive/v$NGINX_OPENTRACING_VERSION.tar.gz"
+get_src 343b4293ca0d4afa55bf1ab54c866766043b2585b6ce81467d3d3e25987fc186 \
+        "https://github.com/opentracing-contrib/nginx-opentracing/archive/$NGINX_OPENTRACING_VERSION.tar.gz"
 
 get_src 4455ca507936bc4b658ded10a90d8ebbbd61c58f06207be565a4ffdc885687b5 \
         "https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-cpp/archive/v$OPENTRACING_CPP_VERSION.tar.gz"