diff --git a/kube-client/Cargo.toml b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
index a2aeb75f2..1b10a8c2f 100644
--- a/kube-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
 rust-version.workspace = true
 keywords = ["kubernetes", "client",]
-categories = ["web-programming::http-client", "configuration", "network-programming", "api-bindings"]
+categories = ["web-programming::http-client", "network-programming", "api-bindings"]
 
 [features]
 default = ["client"]
diff --git a/kube/Cargo.toml b/kube/Cargo.toml
index 51f2e124e..fe5f5d23c 100644
--- a/kube/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kube/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
 rust-version.workspace = true
 keywords = ["kubernetes", "client", "runtime", "cncf"]
-categories = ["network-programming", "caching", "api-bindings", "configuration", "encoding"]
+categories = ["network-programming", "caching", "api-bindings", "encoding"]
 
 [features]
 default = ["client", "rustls-tls"]