diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 8e91700a401..e99954b4617 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -808,10 +808,7 @@ jobs:
           command: npm ci
       - run:
           name: Set version
-          command: |
-            whoami
-            echo $PATH
-            make binary-releases/version binary-releases/fips/version
+          command: make binary-releases/version binary-releases/fips/version
       - run:
           # required for one unit test (ts-binary-wrapper/test/unit/common.spec.ts:15:30)
           # consider removing this run
diff --git a/release-scripts/next-version.sh b/release-scripts/next-version.sh
index 526bb4d9ffb..ec31dc15593 100755
--- a/release-scripts/next-version.sh
+++ b/release-scripts/next-version.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # Only output the next version to stdout. All other output should go to stderr.
 
 RELEASE_BRANCH="master"
-NEXT_VERSION="v$(/home/circleci/.cargo/bin/convco version --bump)"
+NEXT_VERSION="v$(convco version --bump)"
 
 if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH:-}" != "${RELEASE_BRANCH}" ]; then
     NEXT_VERSION="${NEXT_VERSION}-dev.$(git rev-parse HEAD)"