diff --git a/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst b/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst
index 70a2ef341f6..b4727798d4c 100644
--- a/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 Release History
 ===============
 
+1.5.1
+++++++
+* Bumped the Kata genpolicy version to gen4
+
 1.5.0
 ++++++
 * restored the behaviour of --upload-fragment in acifragmentgen to attach to first image in input
diff --git a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/kata_proxy.py b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/kata_proxy.py
index 123ae912f24..d6bae3b3481 100644
--- a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/kata_proxy.py
+++ b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/kata_proxy.py
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 _kata_binaries = {
     "Linux": {
         "path": _binaries_dir / "genpolicy-linux",
-        "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kata-containers/releases/download/3.2.0.azl3.genpolicy3/genpolicy",
-        "sha256": "4cd497ca5e995ddacb53af4da47449c16291aea62e9f8b8ee0fe36ca8d41fe66",
+        "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kata-containers/releases/download/3.2.0.azl3.genpolicy4/genpolicy",
+        "sha256": "8ce7b6d93809c2c999845986784e75a114af5c29e880c5ac90522e856c49b546",
     },
     "Windows": {
         "path": _binaries_dir / "genpolicy-windows.exe",
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@
 _kata_data = [
     {
         "path": _data_dir / "genpolicy-settings.json",
-        "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kata-containers/releases/download/3.2.0.azl3.genpolicy3/genpolicy-settings.json",  # pylint: disable=line-too-long
+        "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kata-containers/releases/download/3.2.0.azl3.genpolicy4/genpolicy-settings.json",  # pylint: disable=line-too-long
         "sha256": "c38be1474b133d49800a43bd30c40e7585b5f302179a307f9c6d89f195daee94",
     },
     {
         "path": _data_dir / "rules.rego",
-        "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kata-containers/releases/download/3.2.0.azl3.genpolicy3/rules.rego",
+        "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kata-containers/releases/download/3.2.0.azl3.genpolicy4/rules.rego",
         "sha256": "2ca6c0e9617f97a922724112bd738fd73881d35b9ae5d31d573f0871d1ecf897",
     },
 ]
diff --git a/src/confcom/setup.py b/src/confcom/setup.py
index fe40522e879..b775742e880 100644
--- a/src/confcom/setup.py
+++ b/src/confcom/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     logger.warn("Wheel is not available, disabling bdist_wheel hook")
 
-VERSION = "1.5.0"
+VERSION = "1.5.1"
 
 # The full list of classifiers is available at
 # https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers