diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 2d7bfdb94..321d548a3 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ require (
 	k8s.io/code-generator v0.33.1
 	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20250318190949-c8a335a9a2ff
 	knative.dev/hack v0.0.0-20250514121446-f525e187efdc
-	knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250626040505-5e2512c7127f
+	knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250627005806-7681e80bae5f
 )
 
 require (
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 026c4b3b2..c8095f3ab 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20241210054802-24370beab758 h1:sdbE21q2nlQtFh65saZY+rRM6x6aJ
 k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20241210054802-24370beab758/go.mod h1:OLgZIPagt7ERELqWJFomSt595RzquPNLL48iOWgYOg0=
 knative.dev/hack v0.0.0-20250514121446-f525e187efdc h1:8HmclJlA0zNE/G1SkgdC3/IFSSyhaSz2iIhihU6YbEo=
 knative.dev/hack v0.0.0-20250514121446-f525e187efdc/go.mod h1:R0ritgYtjLDO9527h5vb5X6gfvt5LCrJ55BNbVDsWiY=
-knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250626040505-5e2512c7127f h1:V8/nxYaJ9A5oWS+qJ92xrfBoumZITLO5S8RU4L0uY+8=
-knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250626040505-5e2512c7127f/go.mod h1:0s7tF3WffhdCzvTzaTEE092KeB4P3OYuRvwFuh5c7kk=
+knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250627005806-7681e80bae5f h1:U2qhuJk5ezHFCkcKqh10lB2TckOoXNQAYj2qgFblXhA=
+knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250627005806-7681e80bae5f/go.mod h1:sZkXsfyjetJqzHRkR3/8fP6K6iQJsub2W2rtYKTu6FU=
 rsc.io/binaryregexp v0.2.0/go.mod h1:qTv7/COck+e2FymRvadv62gMdZztPaShugOCi3I+8D8=
 rsc.io/quote/v3 v3.1.0/go.mod h1:yEA65RcK8LyAZtP9Kv3t0HmxON59tX3rD+tICJqUlj0=
 rsc.io/sampler v1.3.0/go.mod h1:T1hPZKmBbMNahiBKFy5HrXp6adAjACjK9JXDnKaTXpA=
diff --git a/vendor/knative.dev/pkg/system/env.go b/vendor/knative.dev/pkg/system/env.go
index ea1db0f0b..c82cef6b0 100644
--- a/vendor/knative.dev/pkg/system/env.go
+++ b/vendor/knative.dev/pkg/system/env.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 package system
 
 import (
+	"cmp"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 )
@@ -24,8 +25,10 @@ import (
 const (
 	// NamespaceEnvKey is the environment variable that specifies the system namespace.
 	NamespaceEnvKey = "SYSTEM_NAMESPACE"
+
 	// ResourceLabelEnvKey is the environment variable that specifies the system resource
-	// label.
+	// label. This label should be used to limit the number of configmaps that are watched
+	// in the system namespace.
 	ResourceLabelEnvKey = "SYSTEM_RESOURCE_LABEL"
 )
 
@@ -60,3 +63,28 @@ import (
 func ResourceLabel() string {
 	return os.Getenv(ResourceLabelEnvKey)
 }
+
+// PodName will read various env vars to determine the name of the running
+// pod before falling back
+//
+// First it will read 'POD_NAME' this is expected to be populated using the
+// Kubernetes downward API.
+//
+//	env:
+//	- name: MY_POD_NAME
+//	  valueFrom:
+//	    fieldRef:
+//	      fieldPath: metadata.name
+//
+// As a fallback it will read HOSTNAME. This is undocumented
+// Kubernetes behaviour that podman, cri-o and containerd have
+// inherited from docker.
+//
+// If none of these env-vars is set PodName will return an
+// empty string
+func PodName() string {
+	return cmp.Or(
+		os.Getenv("POD_NAME"),
+		os.Getenv("HOSTNAME"),
+	)
+}
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index ff9309920..4e9a33e40 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ k8s.io/utils/trace
 # knative.dev/hack v0.0.0-20250514121446-f525e187efdc
 ## explicit; go 1.21
 knative.dev/hack
-# knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250626040505-5e2512c7127f
+# knative.dev/pkg v0.0.0-20250627005806-7681e80bae5f
 ## explicit; go 1.24.0
 knative.dev/pkg/apis
 knative.dev/pkg/apis/duck