diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index a19bf42fa..087fc47c5 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 GIT
   remote: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus.git
-  revision: 4f93aebfd4a10be0929ee69d7ed73d8d1ab52021
-  tag: 8.2.1.5
+  revision: ea2189790574784fe536151b077cf75780249d92
+  tag: 8.2.1.6
   specs:
     omnibus (8.2.1)
       aws-sdk-s3 (~> 1)
diff --git a/OMNIBUS_GEM_VERSION b/OMNIBUS_GEM_VERSION
index 2d92162fb..2ae42f4ab 100644
--- a/OMNIBUS_GEM_VERSION
+++ b/OMNIBUS_GEM_VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8.2.1.5
+8.2.1.6
diff --git a/omnibus.rb b/omnibus.rb
index abcdd53cd..9a6bee3ac 100644
--- a/omnibus.rb
+++ b/omnibus.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ s3_bucket ENV['CACHE_AWS_BUCKET']
 s3_region ENV['CACHE_AWS_S3_REGION']
 s3_endpoint ENV['CACHE_AWS_S3_ENDPOINT']
 s3_accelerate !ENV['CACHE_S3_ACCELERATE'].nil? && !ENV['CACHE_S3_ACCELERATE'].casecmp("false").zero?
+fetch_workers ENV['OMNIBUS_FETCH_WORKERS_COUNT'].to_i if ENV['OMNIBUS_FETCH_WORKERS_COUNT']
 
 build_retries 2
 fetcher_retries 5