diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/transport/server/ratis/ContainerStateMachine.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/transport/server/ratis/ContainerStateMachine.java
index f87a32d9e5..42a4d997a8 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/transport/server/ratis/ContainerStateMachine.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/transport/server/ratis/ContainerStateMachine.java
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ public class ContainerStateMachine extends BaseStateMachine {
   private ExecutorService[] executors;
   private final int numExecutors;
   private final Map<Long, Long> applyTransactionCompletionMap;
-  private long lastIndex;
   private final Cache<Long, ByteString> stateMachineDataCache;
   private final boolean isBlockTokenEnabled;
   private final TokenVerifier tokenVerifier;
@@ -163,7 +162,6 @@ public ContainerStateMachine(RaftGroupId gid, ContainerDispatcher dispatcher,
     this.executors = executors.toArray(new ExecutorService[numExecutors]);
     this.writeChunkFutureMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
     applyTransactionCompletionMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
-    this.lastIndex = RaftServerConstants.INVALID_LOG_INDEX;
     stateMachineDataCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder()
         .expireAfterAccess(expiryInterval, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
         // set the limit on no of cached entries equal to no of max threads
@@ -202,7 +200,6 @@ private long loadSnapshot(SingleFileSnapshotInfo snapshot)
           "The snapshot info is null." + "Setting the last applied index to:"
               + empty);
       setLastAppliedTermIndex(empty);
-      lastIndex = RaftServerConstants.INVALID_LOG_INDEX;
       return RaftServerConstants.INVALID_LOG_INDEX;
     }
 
@@ -211,7 +208,6 @@ private long loadSnapshot(SingleFileSnapshotInfo snapshot)
         SimpleStateMachineStorage.getTermIndexFromSnapshotFile(snapshotFile);
     LOG.info("Setting the last applied index to " + last);
     setLastAppliedTermIndex(last);
-    lastIndex = last.getIndex();
 
     // initialize the dispatcher with snapshot so that it build the missing
     // container list
@@ -572,6 +568,18 @@ private void updateLastApplied() {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Notifies the state machine about index updates because of entries
+   * which do not cause state machine update, i.e. conf entries, metadata
+   * entries
+   * @param term term of the log entry
+   * @param index index of the log entry
+   */
+  @Override
+  public void notifyIndexUpdate(long term, long index) {
+    applyTransactionCompletionMap.put(index, term);
+  }
+
   /*
    * ApplyTransaction calls in Ratis are sequential.
    */
@@ -583,14 +591,6 @@ public CompletableFuture<Message> applyTransaction(TransactionContext trx) {
             .setTerm(trx.getLogEntry().getTerm())
             .setLogIndex(index);
 
-    // ApplyTransaction call can come with an entryIndex much greater than
-    // lastIndex updated because in between entries in the raft log can be
-    // appended because raft config persistence. Just add a dummy entry
-    // for those.
-    for (long i = lastIndex + 1; i < index; i++) {
-      LOG.info("Gap in indexes at:{} detected, adding dummy entries ", i);
-      applyTransactionCompletionMap.put(i, trx.getLogEntry().getTerm());
-    }
     try {
       metrics.incNumApplyTransactionsOps();
       ContainerCommandRequestProto requestProto =
@@ -613,7 +613,6 @@ public CompletableFuture<Message> applyTransaction(TransactionContext trx) {
           .supplyAsync(() -> runCommand(requestProto, builder.build()),
               getCommandExecutor(requestProto));
 
-      lastIndex = index;
       future.thenAccept(m -> {
         final Long previous =
             applyTransactionCompletionMap
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdds/pom.xml
index e7cced800b..6f95547602 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <hdds.version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</hdds.version>
 
     <!-- Apache Ratis version -->
-    <ratis.version>0.4.0-f283ffa-SNAPSHOT</ratis.version>
+    <ratis.version>0.4.0-5680cf5-SNAPSHOT</ratis.version>
 
     <bouncycastle.version>1.60</bouncycastle.version>
 
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/pom.xml b/hadoop-ozone/pom.xml
index 9884215fd7..77b36321ac 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <hadoop.version>3.2.0</hadoop.version>
     <hdds.version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</hdds.version>
     <ozone.version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</ozone.version>
-    <ratis.version>0.4.0-f283ffa-SNAPSHOT</ratis.version>
+    <ratis.version>0.4.0-5680cf5-SNAPSHOT</ratis.version>
     <bouncycastle.version>1.60</bouncycastle.version>
     <ozone.release>Badlands</ozone.release>
     <declared.ozone.version>${ozone.version}</declared.ozone.version>