diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fbba036de38170c0269780062fa7056e177e27c0..c53072578d18d5d4cdd741a40557044d65902381 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 **Version v2 (master)**
 
+- Upgrade to new pt2matsim version to allow selecting of HAFAS date
 - Store STATPOP and MZ ids as agents attributes
 - Fix Java /tmp bug in shared environments (IVT servers)
 - Make possible to run pipeline in VM, add instructions
diff --git a/config_gitlab.yml b/config_gitlab.yml
index 9b28ff05304ed23cf32e2b5bbb0733e66dca95d0..0cfe728845e036098735a9c1b3b9784cc512d939 100644
--- a/config_gitlab.yml
+++ b/config_gitlab.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ input_downsampling: 0.01
 enable_scaling: true
 scaling_year: 2045
 use_freight: true
+hafas_date: 01.10.2018
 stages:
     - matsim.run
     - matsim.mz.population
diff --git a/matsim/java/pt2matsim.py b/matsim/java/pt2matsim.py
index eabfe3ef6e7e4b347e811668000ca7c7d1179e47..ab7056dbc7f9456f46cc160c03a344813a93fe72 100644
--- a/matsim/java/pt2matsim.py
+++ b/matsim/java/pt2matsim.py
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ def execute(context):
     ], cwd = context.cache_path)
 
     sp.check_call([
-        "git", "checkout", "v19.5"
+        "git", "checkout", "v19.10"
     ], cwd = "%s/pt2matsim" % context.cache_path)
 
     sp.check_call([
         "mvn", "-Djava.io.tmpdir=%s/java_tmp" % context.cache_path, "package"
     ], cwd = "%s/pt2matsim" % context.cache_path)
 
-    jar = "%s/pt2matsim/target/pt2matsim-19.5-shaded.jar" % context.cache_path
+    jar = "%s/pt2matsim/target/pt2matsim-19.10-shaded.jar" % context.cache_path
     java(jar, "org.matsim.pt2matsim.run.CreateDefaultOsmConfig", ["test_config.xml"], cwd = context.cache_path)
 
     assert(os.path.exists("%s/test_config.xml" % context.cache_path))
diff --git a/matsim/network/convert_hafas.py b/matsim/network/convert_hafas.py
index ea8831cc18677bb0564dda9ed21cadd75cad84dd..8c1cb565c8a9abc4e385b6460b26ce0c3dbc3d16 100644
--- a/matsim/network/convert_hafas.py
+++ b/matsim/network/convert_hafas.py
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ def execute(context):
     java(jar, "org.matsim.pt2matsim.run.Hafas2TransitSchedule", [
         "%s/hafas" % context.config["raw_data_path"], "EPSG:2056",
         "%s/transit_schedule.xml.gz" % context.cache_path,
-        "%s/transit_vehicles.xml.gz" % context.cache_path
+        "%s/transit_vehicles.xml.gz" % context.cache_path,
+        context.config["hafas_date"]
     ], cwd = context.cache_path)
 
     assert(os.path.exists("%s/transit_schedule.xml.gz" % context.cache_path))