diff --git a/admin/report/customlang/db/install.xml b/admin/report/customlang/db/install.xml
index 361616b081658..9392220783109 100644
--- a/admin/report/customlang/db/install.xml
+++ b/admin/report/customlang/db/install.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<XMLDB PATH="admin/report/customlang/db" VERSION="20101115" COMMENT="XMLDB file for Moodle admin/report/customlang"
+<XMLDB PATH="admin/report/customlang/db" VERSION="20110419" COMMENT="XMLDB file for Moodle admin/report/customlang"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../lib/xmldb/xmldb.xsd"
 >
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@
       <FIELDS>
         <FIELD NAME="id" TYPE="int" LENGTH="10" NOTNULL="true" UNSIGNED="true" SEQUENCE="true" NEXT="name"/>
         <FIELD NAME="name" TYPE="char" LENGTH="255" NOTNULL="true" SEQUENCE="false" COMMENT="The normalized name of the plugin" PREVIOUS="id" NEXT="version"/>
-        <FIELD NAME="version" TYPE="int" LENGTH="10" NOTNULL="false" UNSIGNED="true" SEQUENCE="false" COMMENT="The checked out version of the plugin, null of the version is unknown" PREVIOUS="name"/>
+        <FIELD NAME="version" TYPE="char" LENGTH="255" NOTNULL="false" SEQUENCE="false" COMMENT="The checked out version of the plugin, null if the version is unknown" PREVIOUS="name"/>
       </FIELDS>
       <KEYS>
         <KEY NAME="primary" TYPE="primary" FIELDS="id"/>
       </KEYS>
     </TABLE>
   </TABLES>
-</XMLDB>
+</XMLDB>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/admin/report/customlang/db/upgrade.php b/admin/report/customlang/db/upgrade.php
index 0a947db28314f..0b1255378b9f9 100644
--- a/admin/report/customlang/db/upgrade.php
+++ b/admin/report/customlang/db/upgrade.php
@@ -57,5 +57,18 @@ function xmldb_report_customlang_upgrade($oldversion) {
         upgrade_plugin_savepoint(true, 2010111500, 'report', 'customlang');
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Change the version field from integer to varchar
+     */
+    if ($oldversion < 2011041900) {
+        $table = new xmldb_table('report_customlang_components');
+        $field = new xmldb_field('version', XMLDB_TYPE_CHAR, '255', null, null, null, null, 'name');
+
+        $dbman->change_field_type($table, $field);
+
+        upgrade_plugin_savepoint(true, 2011041900, 'report', 'customlang');
+    }
+
+
     return $result;
 }
diff --git a/admin/report/customlang/version.php b/admin/report/customlang/version.php
index 78fa1921a6d40..96b03d5ce8c7a 100644
--- a/admin/report/customlang/version.php
+++ b/admin/report/customlang/version.php
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@
 
 defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();
 
-$plugin->version  = 2010120900;
+$plugin->version  = 2011041900;
 $plugin->requires = 2010120700;