diff --git a/minimal-image.changes b/minimal-image.changes
index 7cf5b1e..50c12bf 100644
--- a/minimal-image.changes
+++ b/minimal-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/minimal-image.kiwi b/minimal-image.kiwi
index ed208fb..a6d6825 100644
--- a/minimal-image.kiwi
+++ b/minimal-image.kiwi
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ You can contact the BCI team via https://github.com/SUSE/bci/discussions
       <containerconfig
           name="opensuse/bci/bci-minimal"
           tag="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%"
-          additionaltags="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE%,latest"
-          maintainer="openSUSE (https://www.opensuse.org/)">
+          additionaltags="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE%,latest">
         <labels>
           <suse_label_helper:add_prefix prefix="org.opensuse.bci.minimal">
+            <label name="org.opencontainers.image.authors" value="openSUSE (https://www.opensuse.org/)"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.title" value="openSUSE Tumbleweed BCI Minimal"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.description" value="Minimal container based on the openSUSE Tumbleweed Base Container Image."/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.version" value="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%.%RELEASE%"/>