diff --git a/changelog/12793.txt b/changelog/12793.txt
index b787a3ac9..617c20fca 100644
--- a/changelog/12793.txt
+++ b/changelog/12793.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-```release-note: feature
+```release-note: improvement
 auth: reading `sys/auth/:path` now returns the configuration for the auth engine mounted at the given path
 ```