diff --git a/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 913464a032a3..dcde733d7697 100644
--- a/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/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="11-debian-11-r36" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="11-debian-11-r37" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/bitnami-shell" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="bitnami-shell" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
 # Install required system packages and dependencies
 RUN install_packages curl procps
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
-    rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
+    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 
 ENV APP_VERSION="11" \
     BITNAMI_APP_NAME="bitnami-shell" \
diff --git a/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages b/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
index c9577647443b..2c915f265c9d 100755
--- a/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
+++ b/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ until [ $n -gt $max ]; do
     echo "apt failed, retrying"
     n=$(($n + 1))
 done
-rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
+apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
diff --git a/bitnami/bitnami-shell/README.md b/bitnami/bitnami-shell/README.md
index 9d19530c83e8..e3dce896d3de 100644
--- a/bitnami/bitnami-shell/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/bitnami-shell/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ $ docker run --name bitnami-shell bitnami/bitnami-shell: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/).
 
 
-* [`11`, `11-debian-11`, `11-debian-11-r36`, `latest` (11/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`11`, `11-debian-11`, `11-debian-11-r37`, `latest` (11/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/bitnami-shell/11/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 
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