diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index d25153863..29d495ecc 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ run_network_intermediate_upgrade() {
     if [[ -n "$BRANCH" ]]; then
         local originally_requested_so_branch="$BRANCH"
     else
-        local originally_requested_so_branch="2.4/main"
+        local originally_requested_so_branch="3/main"
     fi
 
     echo "Starting automated intermediate upgrade to $next_step_so_version."