diff --git a/bumpversion.sh b/bumpversion.sh
index ed44d7b68b0e09f6d2cf557f7a15e52553246341..329e866dac988c049574a0a9f26ba89979c523a8 100755
--- a/bumpversion.sh
+++ b/bumpversion.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if [[ "$curVer" ]]; then
   # replace in template and variants
   for tmpl in templates/*.yml
   do
-    sed -e "s/command: *\[\"--service\", \"\(.*\)\", \"$curVer\"\]/command: [\"--service\", \"\1\", \"$nextVer\"]/" "$tmpl" > "$tmpl.next"
+    sed -e "s/command: *\[ *\"--service\", *\"\(.*\)\", *\"$curVer\" *\]/command: [\"--service\", \"\1\", \"$nextVer\"]/" "$tmpl" > "$tmpl.next"
     mv -f "$tmpl.next" "$tmpl"
   done
 else
diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci-renovate.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci-renovate.yml
index e730a563a5caf714bf48abf4f04eee80ec18b5db..b9b0408cfc9fc68446b846f3d4320072bfb1acd6 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci-renovate.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci-renovate.yml
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ stages:
   image: $RENOVATE_IMAGE
   services:
     - name: "$TBC_TRACKING_IMAGE"
-      command: ["--service", "renovate", "1.1.0" ]
+      command: ["--service", "renovate", "1.2.1"]
   variables:
     RENOVATE_BASE_DIR: $CI_PROJECT_DIR
     RENOVATE_CACHE_DIR: $CI_PROJECT_DIR/.cache/renovate