diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 37fee399..c4a8d91d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -89,11 +89,6 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash
         run: |
           version="${{ github.ref }}"
-          if [[ "$version" = "refs/heads/main" ]]; then
-            version="0.0.0-dev"
-          else
-            version="${version/refs\/tags/}"
-          fi
           sed -i -e "s/0.0.0+replaced-by-ci/${version}/g" Cargo.toml
           pyproject="$(cat extism-maturin/pyproject.toml)"
           <<<"$pyproject" >extism-maturin/pyproject.toml sed -e 's/^version = "0.0.0.replaced-by-ci"/version = "'"$version"'"/g'