diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c7d4813..f2d89f4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Make ubiconfig.utils.config_validation.validate_config publicly available via
   ubiconfig.validate_config
 
+### Fixed
+- Fix LocalLoader couldn't get right version if the argument version of load() is None.
+
 ## [v2.1.0] - 2019-10-23
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 746400d..1f04bf9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def get_requirements():
 
 setup(
     name="ubi-config",
-    version="2.1.0",
+    version="2.1.1",
     author="",
     author_email="",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests", "tests.*"]),
diff --git a/tests/ubiconfig/test_ubi.py b/tests/ubiconfig/test_ubi.py
index 04aea04..a42b518 100644
--- a/tests/ubiconfig/test_ubi.py
+++ b/tests/ubiconfig/test_ubi.py
@@ -181,9 +181,10 @@ def test_load_all_with_error_config(
 
 
 def test_load_from_local():
-    loader = ubi.get_loader(TEST_DATA_DIR)
+    path = os.path.join(TEST_DATA_DIR, "configs/ubi7.1")
+    loader = ubi.get_loader(path)
     # loads relative to given path
-    config = loader.load("configs/ubi7.1/rhel-atomic-host.yaml")
+    config = loader.load("rhel-atomic-host.yaml")
     assert isinstance(config, UbiConfig)
     assert config.version == "7.1"
 
@@ -195,13 +196,13 @@ def test_load_from_local_decimal_integrity():
 
 
 def test_load_from_nonyaml(tmpdir):
-    somefile = tmpdir.join("some-file.txt")
+    somefile = tmpdir.mkdir("ubi7").join("some-file.txt")
     somefile.write("[oops, this is not valid yaml")
 
     loader = ubi.get_loader(str(tmpdir))
 
     with pytest.raises(yaml.YAMLError):
-        loader.load("some-file.txt")
+        loader.load("ubi7/some-file.txt")
 
 
 def test_load_local_failed_validation():
@@ -220,6 +221,13 @@ def test_load_all_from_local():
     assert isinstance(configs[0], UbiConfig)
 
 
+def test_load_from_directory_not_named_after_ubi():
+    with patch("os.path.isdir"):
+        loader = ubi.get_loader("./ubi7.1a")
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            config = loader.load("file")
+
+
 def test_load_all_from_local_with_error_configs():
     loader = ubi.get_loader(TEST_DATA_DIR)
     configs = loader.load_all()
diff --git a/ubiconfig/_impl/loaders/local.py b/ubiconfig/_impl/loaders/local.py
index 6cbf344..a5196eb 100644
--- a/ubiconfig/_impl/loaders/local.py
+++ b/ubiconfig/_impl/loaders/local.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 import os
+import re
 
 import yaml
 from jsonschema.exceptions import ValidationError
@@ -40,16 +41,22 @@ def load(self, file_name, version=None):
 
                 If version is None, we should get it from its path.
         """
-        if version is None:
-            # get version form path, such as configs/ubi7.1/config.yaml, get
-            # ubi7.1
-            version = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(file_name))
-
         if not self._isroot:
             file_path = os.path.join(self._path, file_name)
         else:
             file_path = file_name
 
+        if version is None:
+            # get version from path, such as configs/ubi7.1/config.yaml, get
+            # ubi7.1.
+            version = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file_path)))
+
+        if not re.search(r"ubi[0-9]{1}\.?([0-9]{0,2})$", version):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Expect directories named in format ubi[0-9]{1}.?([0-9]{0,2})$', but got %s"
+                % version
+            )
+
         LOG.info("Loading configuration file locally: %s", file_path)
 
         with open(file_path, "r") as f:
@@ -94,7 +101,7 @@ def _get_local_files_map(self):
             ]
             if conf_files:
                 # if there's yaml files, then it must under some version directory
-                version = os.path.basename(root)
+                version = os.path.basename(os.path.abspath(root))
                 ver_files_map.setdefault(version, []).extend(conf_files)
                 # the result map is as {'version': ['file1', 'file2', ..]}