diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cd645d8..005b6eb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ _build: all
 		mkdir -p $$lf/LC_MESSAGES; \
 		cp $$l $$lf/LC_MESSAGES/dash-to-panel.mo; \
 	done;
-ifdef COMMIT
+ifneq ($(and $(COMMIT),$(VERSION)),)
 	sed -i 's/"version": [[:digit:]][[:digit:]]*/"version": $(VERSION),\n"commit": "$(COMMIT)"/'  _build/metadata.json;
-else
+else ifneq ($(VERSION),)
 	sed -i 's/"version": [[:digit:]][[:digit:]]*/"version": $(VERSION)/'  _build/metadata.json;
 endif
diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json
index 294e76f..96f7d24 100644
--- a/metadata.json
+++ b/metadata.json
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 "shell-version": [ "3.18", "3.20", "3.22", "3.24", "3.26" ],
 "url": "https://github.com/jderose9/dash-to-panel",
 "gettext-domain": "dash-to-panel",
-"version": 0
+"version": 9999
 }