diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci-semrel.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci-semrel.yml
index 58e349e8361a7d70f079d2a46b57448f4da7322e..978d6bab2d4533ea707471beef11577d957f1aeb 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci-semrel.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci-semrel.yml
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ spec:
       - protected
       - all
       default: ''
-    docker-semantic-release-job-tags:
-      description: tags to filter applicable runners for docker-semantic-release job
+    semantic-release-job-tags:
+      description: tags to filter applicable runners for semantic-release job
       type: array
       default: []
 
@@ -739,5 +739,5 @@ semantic-release:
     # else manual
     - when: manual
       allow_failure: true
-  tags: $[[ inputs.docker-semantic-release-job-tags ]]
+  tags: $[[ inputs.semantic-release-job-tags ]]