diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
index f1a06002bd2..d7afd1cb3c0 100755
--- a/scripts/make-release
+++ b/scripts/make-release
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ read -r
 
 status "- Bumping version to ${FULL_VERSION}"
 # bump the version
-sed -i -e "s/__version__ = '.*'/__version__ = 'test'/" __init__.py
+sed -i -e "s/__version__ = '.*'/__version__ = '$FULL_VERSION'/" __init__.py
 git commit __init__.py -m "${COMMIT_PREFIX}Bumped version to ${FULL_VERSION}"
 
 status "- Fetching strings from transifex"