diff --git a/distribution-image.changes b/distribution-image.changes
index 8d6dc7f..a9948fc 100644
--- a/distribution-image.changes
+++ b/distribution-image.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Aug  3 08:56:51 UTC 2024 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- set OCI.authors attribute instead of deprecated MAINTAINER
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jul 31 12:06:44 UTC 2024 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/distribution-image.kiwi b/distribution-image.kiwi
index bbdb773..ac1057b 100644
--- a/distribution-image.kiwi
+++ b/distribution-image.kiwi
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ You can contact the BCI team via https://github.com/SUSE/bci/discussions
           name="opensuse/registry"
           tag="%%registry_version%%"
           additionaltags="%%registry_version%%-%RELEASE%,latest"
-          user="registry"
-          maintainer="openSUSE (https://www.opensuse.org/)">
+          user="registry">
         <labels>
           <suse_label_helper:add_prefix prefix="org.opensuse.application.registry">
+            <label name="org.opencontainers.image.authors" value="openSUSE (https://www.opensuse.org/)"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.title" value="openSUSE Tumbleweed OCI Container Registry (Distribution)"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.description" value="OCI Container Registry (Distribution) container based on the openSUSE Tumbleweed Base Container Image."/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.version" value="%%registry_version%%"/>