diff --git a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
index d0f0b2424b96..37c1da18797a 100644
--- a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/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="1.6.0-debian-11-r6" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.6.0-debian-11-r7" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/kafka-exporter" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="kafka-exporter" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     fi && \
     sha256sum -c kafka-exporter-1.6.0-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256 && \
     tar -zxf kafka-exporter-1.6.0-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz -C /opt/bitnami --strip-components=2 --no-same-owner --wildcards '*/files' && \
-    rm -rf kafka-exporter-1.6.0-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz
+    rm -rf kafka-exporter-1.6.0-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz kafka-exporter-1.6.0-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
     rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 RUN chmod g+rwX /opt/bitnami
diff --git a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md
index 4bb0e2ed79ea..5156f3cb119a 100644
--- a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recom
 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`, `1-debian-11`, `1.6.0`, `1.6.0-debian-11-r6`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`1`, `1-debian-11`, `1.6.0`, `1.6.0-debian-11-r7`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 
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