diff --git a/client/CHANGELOG.md b/client/CHANGELOG.md
index 1e112a7..67a571c 100644
--- a/client/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/client/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ The **patch** part changes is incremented if multiple releases happen the same m
 * split functions into libraries
 * add evobackupctl script
 * change the "zzz_evobackup" script to a template, easy to copy with evobackupctl
+* use env-based shebang for shell scripts
 
 ### Deprecated
 
diff --git a/client/bin/evobackupctl b/client/bin/evobackupctl
index f8d68c3..5be5efe 100644
--- a/client/bin/evobackupctl
+++ b/client/bin/evobackupctl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2155
 readonly PROGNAME=$(basename "${0}")
diff --git a/client/lib/dump-misc.sh b/client/lib/dump-misc.sh
index 92f6e2e..7fbdafe 100644
--- a/client/lib/dump-misc.sh
+++ b/client/lib/dump-misc.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2317,SC2155
 
 #######################################################################
diff --git a/client/lib/dump-postgresql.sh b/client/lib/dump-postgresql.sh
index ebbe7d6..cfe4a80 100644
--- a/client/lib/dump-postgresql.sh
+++ b/client/lib/dump-postgresql.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2317,SC2155
 
 #######################################################################
diff --git a/client/lib/main.sh b/client/lib/main.sh
index 2fcae8f..e1d1ecc 100644
--- a/client/lib/main.sh
+++ b/client/lib/main.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2317
 
 readonly VERSION="23.12-pre"
diff --git a/client/lib/utilities.sh b/client/lib/utilities.sh
index f451f13..d286195 100644
--- a/client/lib/utilities.sh
+++ b/client/lib/utilities.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # Output a message to the log file
 log() {
diff --git a/client/lib/zzz_evobackup.sh b/client/lib/zzz_evobackup.sh
index 5fea710..db922b0 100644
--- a/client/lib/zzz_evobackup.sh
+++ b/client/lib/zzz_evobackup.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # Evobackup client
 # See https://gitea.evolix.org/evolix/evobackup