diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 359b849..e9464a3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "CURRENT_TAG=$CURRENT_TAG"
           echo "CURRENT_PY_TAG=$CURRENT_PY_TAG"
       - name: Setup pack
-        uses: buildpacks/github-actions/setup-pack@v5.8.8
+        uses: buildpacks/github-actions/setup-pack@e3b14c6e906f91da358e01dc2849ce068188107f # v5.12.5
       - name: Setup Cosign
         uses: sigstore/cosign-installer@d7d6bc7722e3daa8354c50bcb52f4837da5e9b6a # v3.8.1
       - name: Install oras
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a0a52d5..684e1c3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # demo-album-catalog-python
 
-![validation and test result](https://github.com/giantswarm/demo-album-catalog-python/actions/workflows/validate-test.yaml/badge.svg?event=push)
-
 ## Intro
 
 This repo is meant as a template base for a python flask based web service projects, that are deployed to a Kubernetes cluster