diff --git a/micro-image.changes b/micro-image.changes
index d0b7770..306e8db 100644
--- a/micro-image.changes
+++ b/micro-image.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Oct 11 15:00:03 UTC 2024 - SUSE Update Bot <bci-internal@suse.de>
+
+- switch to the more standard - separator also for OsContainers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Sep 28 08:15:08 UTC 2024 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/micro-image.kiwi b/micro-image.kiwi
index 58bbd50..62102f4 100644
--- a/micro-image.kiwi
+++ b/micro-image.kiwi
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ https://github.com/SUSE/BCI-dockerfile-generator
 Please submit bugfixes or comments via https://bugs.opensuse.org/
 You can contact the BCI team via https://github.com/SUSE/bci/discussions
 -->
-<!-- OBS-AddTag: opensuse/bci/bci-micro:%OS_VERSION_ID_SP% opensuse/bci/bci-micro:%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE% opensuse/bci/bci-micro:latest -->
+<!-- OBS-AddTag: opensuse/bci/bci-micro:%OS_VERSION_ID_SP% opensuse/bci/bci-micro:%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%-%RELEASE% opensuse/bci/bci-micro:latest -->
 <!-- OBS-Imagerepo: obsrepositories:/ -->
 
 <image schemaversion="7.4" name="micro-image" xmlns:suse_label_helper="com.suse.label_helper">
@@ -28,19 +28,19 @@ You can contact the BCI team via https://github.com/SUSE/bci/discussions
       <containerconfig
           name="opensuse/bci/bci-micro"
           tag="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%"
-          additionaltags="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE%,latest">
+          additionaltags="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%-%RELEASE%,latest">
         <labels>
           <suse_label_helper:add_prefix prefix="org.opensuse.bci.micro">
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.authors" value="openSUSE (https://www.opensuse.org/)"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.title" value="openSUSE Tumbleweed BCI Micro"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.description" value="A micro environment for containers based on the openSUSE Tumbleweed Base Container Image."/>
-            <label name="org.opencontainers.image.version" value="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE%"/>
+            <label name="org.opencontainers.image.version" value="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%-%RELEASE%"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.created" value="%BUILDTIME%"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.vendor" value="openSUSE Project"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.source" value="%SOURCEURL%"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.url" value="https://www.opensuse.org"/>
-            <label name="org.opencontainers.image.ref.name" value="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE%"/>
-            <label name="org.opensuse.reference" value="registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/bci/bci-micro:%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE%"/>
+            <label name="org.opencontainers.image.ref.name" value="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%-%RELEASE%"/>
+            <label name="org.opensuse.reference" value="registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/bci/bci-micro:%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%-%RELEASE%"/>
             <label name="org.openbuildservice.disturl" value="%DISTURL%"/>
             <label name="org.opensuse.release-stage" value="released"/>
             <label name="org.opensuse.lifecycle-url" value="https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime#openSUSE_BCI"/>