diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f2287c90..7eba4199 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ jobs:
           description: Process agent collecting per-process and per-container telemetry for SUSE Observability.
           component: stackstate-k8s-process-agent
           dockerfile: BCI.dockerfile
-          base-name: registry.suse.com/bci/bci-micro:15.7@sha256:f1427da6f40791aa5a9f73bb339674970ea93a2b158adc81bc99bcd1b7899a74
+          base-name: registry.suse.com/bci/bci-micro:16.1@sha256:a4a51144c8731ff7499143e7799aaab329d6cd01af88b5f660935d6852486f83
 
       - name: Build, publish, and sign architecture image
         uses: StackVista/image-pipeline/.github/actions/push-single-arch@79dd6718168651ffc846eed98c3c0cb646eb15a0 # v1.0.1
diff --git a/BCI.dockerfile b/BCI.dockerfile
index 5db1e8b4..d11b8a29 100644
--- a/BCI.dockerfile
+++ b/BCI.dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM registry.suse.com/bci/bci-micro:15.7@sha256:f1427da6f40791aa5a9f73bb339674970ea93a2b158adc81bc99bcd1b7899a74 AS final
+FROM registry.suse.com/bci/bci-micro:16.1@sha256:a4a51144c8731ff7499143e7799aaab329d6cd01af88b5f660935d6852486f83 AS final
 ARG LONG_ARCH="x86_64"
 ARG SHORT_ARCH="amd64"
 ARG EBPF_SUBFOLDER="x86_64"