diff --git a/charts/kube-state-metrics/Chart.yaml b/charts/kube-state-metrics/Chart.yaml
index 8e2a7d502b29..1b60f78f0d47 100644
--- a/charts/kube-state-metrics/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/kube-state-metrics/Chart.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ keywords:
   - prometheus
   - kubernetes
 type: application
-version: 6.3.0
+version: 6.3.1
 # renovate: github-releases=kubernetes/kube-state-metrics
 appVersion: 2.17.0
 home: https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/
diff --git a/charts/kube-state-metrics/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/kube-state-metrics/templates/deployment.yaml
index cd1aa5f14576..fd563ccf1c5f 100644
--- a/charts/kube-state-metrics/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/kube-state-metrics/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ spec:
         {{- if .Values.metricLabelsAllowlist }}
         - --metric-labels-allowlist={{ .Values.metricLabelsAllowlist | join "," }}
         {{- end }}
-        {{- if .Values.metricAnnotationsAllowList }}
-        - --metric-annotations-allowlist={{ .Values.metricAnnotationsAllowList | join "," }}
+        {{- /* backwards compatibility with metricAnnotationsAllowList */ }}
+        {{- $metricAnnotationsAllowlist := .Values.metricAnnotationsAllowlist | default .Values.metricAnnotationsAllowList }}
+        {{- if $metricAnnotationsAllowlist }}
+        - --metric-annotations-allowlist={{ $metricAnnotationsAllowlist | join "," }}
         {{- end }}
         {{- if .Values.metricAllowlist }}
         - --metric-allowlist={{ .Values.metricAllowlist | join "," }}
diff --git a/charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml b/charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml
index db9051f28fb2..cc982afa0b9f 100644
--- a/charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ metricLabelsAllowlist: []
 # annotation keys you would like to allow for them (Example: '=namespaces=[kubernetes.io/team,...],pods=[kubernetes.io/team],...)'.
 # A single '*' can be provided per resource instead to allow any annotations, but that has
 # severe performance implications (Example: '=pods=[*]').
-metricAnnotationsAllowList: []
+metricAnnotationsAllowlist: []
   # - pods=[k8s-annotation-1,k8s-annotation-n]
 
 # Available collectors for kube-state-metrics.