diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a4a033fa4c..f4bcbce645 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 - Add Ruff linter and formatter replacing Black, isort and pyupgrade ([#2620](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2620))
 - Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v1.8.0 ([#2630](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2630))
 - Update mshick/add-pr-comment action to v2 ([#2632](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2632))
+- update python image version in docker file ([#2636](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2636))
 
 # [v2.11.1 - Magnesium Dragon Patch](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/releases/tag/2.11) - [2023-12-20]
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 95d544b26f..9c9770c25f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.11.5-slim
+FROM python:3.11-slim
 LABEL authors="phil.ewels@scilifelab.se,erik.danielsson@scilifelab.se" \
     description="Docker image containing requirements for the nfcore tools"