diff --git a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 956165722717..675f01892065 100644
--- a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL com.vmware.cp.artifact.flavor="sha256:1e1b4657a77f0d47e9220f0c37b9bf7802581b93214fff7d1bd2364c8bf22e8e" \
       org.opencontainers.image.base.name="docker.io/bitnami/minideb:bullseye" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.created="2023-09-21T20:34:20Z" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.created="2023-09-23T21:30:09Z" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by VMware, Inc" \
       org.opencontainers.image.licenses="Apache-2.0" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="5.0.21-debian-11-r10" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="5.0.21-debian-11-r12" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="mongodb-sharded" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
       org.opencontainers.image.version="5.0.21"
diff --git a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh
index e613c77550f2..4e6dc8c989b0 100644
--- a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh
+++ b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh
@@ -488,9 +488,15 @@ mongodb_set_journal_conf() {
     local mongodb_conf
 
     if ! mongodb_is_file_external "$conf_file_name"; then
-        if [[ -n "$MONGODB_ENABLE_JOURNAL" ]]; then
-            mongodb_conf="$(sed -E "/^ *journal:/,/^ *[^:]*:/s/enabled:.*/enabled: $({ is_boolean_yes "$MONGODB_ENABLE_JOURNAL" && echo 'true'; } || echo 'false')/" "$conf_file_path")"
+        # Disable journal.enabled since it is not supported from 7.0 on
+        if [[ "$(mongodb_get_version)" =~ ^7\..\. ]]; then
+            mongodb_conf="$(sed '/journal:/,/enabled: .*/d' "$conf_file_path")"
             echo "$mongodb_conf" >"$conf_file_path"
+        else
+            if [[ -n "$MONGODB_ENABLE_JOURNAL" ]]; then
+                mongodb_conf="$(sed -E "/^ *journal:/,/^ *[^:]*:/s/enabled:.*/enabled: $({ is_boolean_yes "$MONGODB_ENABLE_JOURNAL" && echo 'true'; } || echo 'false')/" "$conf_file_path")"
+                echo "$mongodb_conf" >"$conf_file_path"
+            fi
         fi
     else
         debug "$conf_file_name mounted. Skipping setting log settings"