diff --git a/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 0947e29640bd..e3e70829108b 100644
--- a/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.25.2-debian-11-r0" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.25.2-debian-11-r1" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/kubectl" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="kubectl" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ENV HOME="/" \
 COPY prebuildfs /
 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
 # Install required system packages and dependencies
-RUN install_packages ca-certificates curl git gzip jq procps tar
+RUN install_packages ca-certificates curl git jq procps
 RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     if [ ! -f kubectl-1.25.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz ]; then \
       curl -SsLf https://downloads.bitnami.com/files/stacksmith/kubectl-1.25.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz -O ; \
diff --git a/bitnami/kubectl/README.md b/bitnami/kubectl/README.md
index 1281a4d9f730..1daa5fae2ac7 100644
--- a/bitnami/kubectl/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/kubectl/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ $ docker run --name kubectl bitnami/kubectl:latest
 Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags [in our documentation page](https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/understand-rolling-tags-containers/).
 
 
-* [`1.25`, `1.25-debian-11`, `1.25.2`, `1.25.2-debian-11-r0`, `latest` (1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`1.25`, `1.25-debian-11`, `1.25.2`, `1.25.2-debian-11-r1`, `latest` (1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`1.24`, `1.24-debian-11`, `1.24.6`, `1.24.6-debian-11-r1` (1.24/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.24/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`1.23`, `1.23-debian-11`, `1.23.12`, `1.23.12-debian-11-r1` (1.23/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.23/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`1.22`, `1.22-debian-11`, `1.22.15`, `1.22.15-debian-11-r0` (1.22/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.22/debian-11/Dockerfile)