diff --git a/REBASE.openshift.md b/REBASE.openshift.md
index 1d6d616f8e924..75905ebd18cfe 100644
--- a/REBASE.openshift.md
+++ b/REBASE.openshift.md
@@ -360,9 +360,8 @@ The following repositories have been already bumped as well:
 
 <URLs to api/client-go/library-go/apiserver-library-go/operators>
 
-Followup work has been assigned to appropriate teams
-through bugzillas linked in the code. Please treat
-them as the highest priority after landing the bump.
+A Jira ticket has been opened for the rebase process.
+It has been linked to the pull request.
 
 Finally, this means we are blocking ALL PRs to our
 kubernetes fork.
@@ -518,19 +517,18 @@ The above steps are available as a script that will merge and rebase along the h
 resolution and at the end will create a PR for you.
 
 Here are the steps:
-1. Create a new BugZilla with the respective OpenShift version to rebase (Target Release stays ---),
-   Prio&Severity to High with a proper description of the change logs.
-   See [BZ2021468](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021468) as an example.
+1. Create a new Jira ticket under OCPBUGS with the respective OpenShift version to rebase,
+   Target Backport Version to the previous minor version + .z
 2. It's best to start off with a fresh fork of [openshift/kubernetes](https://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/). Stay on the master branch.
 3. This script requires `jq`, `git`, `podman` and `bash`, `gh` is optional.
 4. In the root dir of that fork run:
 ```
-openshift-hack/rebase.sh --k8s-tag=v1.25.2 --openshift-release=release-4.12 --bugzilla-id=2003027
+openshift-hack/rebase.sh --k8s-tag=v1.25.2 --openshift-release=release-4.12 --jira-id=OCPBUGS-90150
 ```
 
 where `k8s-tag` is the [kubernetes/kubernetes](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/) release tag, the `openshift-release`
-is the OpenShift release branch in [openshift/kubernetes](https://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/) and the `bugzilla-id` is the
-BugZilla ID created in step (1).
+is the OpenShift release branch in [openshift/kubernetes](https://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/) and the `jira-id` is the
+Jira ticket number created in step (1).
 
 5. In case of conflicts, it will ask you to step into another shell to resolve those. The script will continue by committing the resolution with `UPSTREAM: <drop>`.
 6. At the end, there will be a "rebase-$VERSION" branch pushed to your fork.
diff --git a/openshift-hack/rebase.sh b/openshift-hack/rebase.sh
index ed2fdbbed5152..de761bd03b46f 100755
--- a/openshift-hack/rebase.sh
+++ b/openshift-hack/rebase.sh
@@ -11,16 +11,16 @@
 #
 # The usage is described in /Rebase.openshift.md.
 
-# validate input args --k8s-tag=v1.21.2 --openshift-release=release-4.8 --bugzilla-id=2003027
+# validate input args --k8s-tag=v1.21.2 --openshift-release=release-4.8 --jira-id=OCPBUGS-91759
 k8s_tag=""
 openshift_release=""
-bugzilla_id=""
+jira_id=""
 
 usage() {
   echo "Available arguments:"
   echo "  --k8s-tag            (required) Example: --k8s-tag=v1.21.2"
   echo "  --openshift-release  (required) Example: --openshift-release=release-4.8"
-  echo "  --bugzilla-id        (optional) creates new PR against openshift/kubernetes:${openshift-release}: Example: --bugzilla-id=2003027"
+  echo "  --jira-id        (optional) Include Jira ticket in PR title: Example: --jira-id=OCPBUGS-1234"
 }
 
 for i in "$@"; do
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ for i in "$@"; do
     openshift_release="${i#*=}"
     shift
     ;;
-  --bugzilla-id=*)
-    bugzilla_id="${i#*=}"
+  --jira-id=*)
+    jira_id="${i#*=}"
     shift
     ;;
   *)
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ fi
 echo "Processed arguments are:"
 echo "--k8s_tag=${k8s_tag}"
 echo "--openshift_release=${openshift_release}"
-echo "--bugzilla_id=${bugzilla_id}"
+echo "--jira_id=${jira_id}"
 
 # prerequisites (check git, podman, ... is present)
 if ! command -v git &>/dev/null; then
@@ -98,9 +98,13 @@ git fetch upstream --tags -f
 git remote add openshift git@github.com:openshift/kubernetes.git
 git fetch openshift
 
-#git checkout --track "openshift/$openshift_release"
+git checkout --track "openshift/$openshift_release"
 git pull openshift "$openshift_release"
 
+if [ -z "$(git tag -l "$k8s_tag")" ]; then
+    echo "No such tag exists in upstream for: $k8s_tag"
+	exit 1
+fi
 git merge "$k8s_tag"
 # shellcheck disable=SC2181
 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
@@ -125,18 +129,17 @@ fi
 
 # openshift-hack/images/hyperkube/Dockerfile.rhel still has FROM pointing to old tag
 # we need to remove the prefix "v" from the $k8s_tag to stay compatible
-sed -i -E "s/(io.openshift.build.versions=\"kubernetes=)(1.[1-9]+.[1-9]+)/\1${k8s_tag:1}/" openshift-hack/images/hyperkube/Dockerfile.rhel
+podman run --rm -v "$(pwd):/workspace:Z" alpine:latest \
+  sed -i -E "s/(io.openshift.build.versions=\"kubernetes=)(1.[1-9]+.[1-9]+)/\1${k8s_tag:1}/" \
+  /workspace/openshift-hack/images/hyperkube/Dockerfile.rhel
 go_mod_go_ver=$(grep -E 'go 1\.[1-9][0-9]?' go.mod | sed -E 's/go (1\.[1-9][0-9]?)/\1/' | cut -d '.' -f 1,2) # Need to handle mod versions like 1.23 and 1.23.4; our release images only have major.minor
-tag="rhel-8-release-golang-${go_mod_go_ver}-openshift-${openshift_release#release-}"
-
-# update openshift go.mod dependencies
-sed -i -E "/=>/! s/(\tgithub.com\/openshift\/[a-z|-]+) (.*)$/\1 $openshift_release/" go.mod
+tag=$(grep "^  tag:" .ci-operator.yaml | head -n1 | sed -E 's/.*: (.*)/\1/')
 
 echo "> go mod tidy && hack/update-vendor.sh"
 podman run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/go/k8s.io/kubernetes:Z" \
   --workdir=/go/k8s.io/kubernetes \
   "registry.ci.openshift.org/openshift/release:$tag" \
-  go mod tidy && hack/update-vendor.sh
+  /bin/bash -c "go mod tidy && hack/update-vendor.sh"
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2181
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
@@ -144,6 +147,12 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
+echo "> make clean to remove stale _output directory"
+  podman run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/go/k8s.io/kubernetes:Z" \
+    --workdir=/go/k8s.io/kubernetes \
+    "registry.ci.openshift.org/openshift/release:$tag" \
+    make clean
+
 podman run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/go/k8s.io/kubernetes:Z" \
   --workdir=/go/k8s.io/kubernetes \
   "registry.ci.openshift.org/openshift/release:$tag" \
@@ -158,18 +167,16 @@ git push origin "$openshift_release:$remote_branch"
 XY=$(echo "$k8s_tag" | sed -E "s/v(1\.[0-9]+)\.[0-9]+/\1/")
 ver=$(echo "$k8s_tag" | sed "s/\.//g")
 link="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-$XY.md#$ver"
-if [ -n "${bugzilla_id}" ]; then
+if [ -n "${jira_id}" ]; then
   if command -v gh &>/dev/null; then
     XY=$(echo "$k8s_tag" | sed -E "s/v(1\.[0-9]+)\.[0-9]+/\1/")
     ver=$(echo "$k8s_tag" | sed "s/\.//g")
     link="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-$XY.md#$ver"
 
-    # opens a web browser, because we can't properly create PRs against remote repositories with the GH CLI (yet):
-    # https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/2691
     gh pr create \
-      --title "Bug $bugzilla_id: Rebase $k8s_tag" \
+      --title "$jira_id: Rebase $k8s_tag in $openshift_release" \
       --body "CHANGELOG $link" \
-      --web
-
+      --base "$openshift_release" \
+      --head "$remote_branch"
   fi
 fi