diff --git a/catatonit.spec b/catatonit.spec
index a703b33..6821c27 100644
--- a/catatonit.spec
+++ b/catatonit.spec
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 %global built_tag v0.1.7
 %global built_tag_strip %(b=%{built_tag}; echo ${b:1})
+%global gen_version %(b=%{built_tag_strip}; echo ${b/-/"~"})
 
 Name: catatonit
-Version: 0.1.7
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: %{gen_version}
+Release: %autorelease
 Summary: A signal-forwarding process manager for containers
 License: GPLv3+
 URL: https://github.com/openSUSE/catatonit
@@ -59,35 +60,4 @@ ln -s %{_libexecdir}/%{name}/%{name} %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/podman/%{name}
 %{_libexecdir}/podman/%{name}
 
 %changelog
-* Wed Jan 19 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.7-2
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Mon Nov 01 2021 RH Container Bot <rhcontainerbot@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.7-1
-- autobuilt v0.1.7
-
-* Thu Sep 16 2021 RH Container Bot <rhcontainerbot@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.6-1
-- autobuilt v0.1.6
-
-* Fri Aug 20 2021 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.5-6
-- Fix broken upgrade path
-- Related: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1174
-
-* Wed Jul 21 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.5-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.5-4
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.5-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Wed Apr 29 2020 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.5-2
-- complain if not statically linked, patch from Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 
-
-* Wed Apr 29 2020 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.5-1
-- bump to v0.1.5
-- static binary to not break containers that don't have necessary shared libs
-
-* Wed Feb 19 2020 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.4-1
-- first build for review
-- source copied from openSUSE @ https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/catatonit
+%autochangelog