diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 870304a6acc99e715dffbfabd8058be000b6872c..9ac58f37f2893613ca9f82be08136d9da674737e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # A image for building paddle binaries
 # Use cuda devel base image for both cpu and gpu environment
+
+# When you modify it, please be aware of cudnn-runtime version 
+# and libcudnn.so.x in paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
 FROM nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn7-devel-ubuntu16.04
 MAINTAINER PaddlePaddle Authors <paddle-dev@baidu.com>
 
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
index 86ef3e4df153dba905fb5f09e6c2030724270de8..94628270228b9e7fd32405bdcb5e11c163ba4791 100755
--- a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
+++ b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ EOF
 function gen_dockerfile() {
     # Set BASE_IMAGE according to env variables
     if [[ ${WITH_GPU} == "ON" ]]; then
-    BASE_IMAGE="nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn5-runtime-ubuntu16.04"
+    BASE_IMAGE="nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn7-runtime-ubuntu16.04"
     else
     BASE_IMAGE="ubuntu:16.04"
     fi
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ function gen_dockerfile() {
     DOCKERFILE_CUDNN_DSO=""
     if [[ ${WITH_GPU:-OFF} == 'ON' ]]; then
         DOCKERFILE_GPU_ENV="ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-        DOCKERFILE_CUDNN_DSO="RUN ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcudnn.so.5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcudnn.so"
+        DOCKERFILE_CUDNN_DSO="RUN ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcudnn.so.7 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcudnn.so"
     fi
 
     cat <<EOF